From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23258 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2003 14:47:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 23250 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 14:46:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 14:46:59 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18yx1Z-0004eS-00; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:48:14 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18yv7x-0001lD-00; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:46:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Richard Kenner Cc: guerby@acm.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: ACATS & GCC testsuite Message-ID: <20030328144641.GA6746@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Kenner , guerby@acm.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <10303281040.AA27659@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10303281040.AA27659@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg01717.txt.bz2 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:40:37AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote: > I'm not sure why autogen is needed for testing, the > only thing you need is dejagnu and then "make -k check" > just works. (I have dejagnu-1.4.2-6 on my RedHat 8.0 machine). > > But you also have to do a full build and doing it in maintainer-mode is > best. Those require automake, autogen, and autoheader. Why is it "best"? Most other maintainers find it unnecessary unless you're working with the generated files, and generally even if you are you can just regenerate the ones you need. It's simpler, quicker, and more consistent not to. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer