From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>
Cc: mrs@wrs.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: egcs testsuite & dejagnu : A special case?
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 20:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23590.899349123@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199807011209.IAA15248@melange.gnu.org>
> I'm a bit lost in the parsing of that, but I think I know what you're
> saying. If I'm right, that eases the invocation of a compiler
> installed in one of a variety of paths named after the version, to
> keep track of things. (I've been doing that for the past several
> months, and boy is it worthwhile, and worth the extra typing, to just
> *know* what version of what compiler I'm invoking at any one time.)
>
> What I'm suggesting is a way to "elegantly" export, from the egcs
> "system", a single command name that invokes the built command
> instead of the installed command.
Thinking more about this, it basically means putting a large part of
dejagnu's target.exp & libgloss.exp into gcc itself. That may not
be wise :-) :-) But if someone wants to experiment and find a good
way to do it, it would be a big help for the developers.
> Would this be worth trying to put into 1.1? (Isn't the freeze date
> for that coming up, like, this week?)
I doubt it. I think we've got more important issues to deal with for 1.1.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-01 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-01 0:54 Mike Stump
1998-07-01 7:26 ` Craig Burley
1998-07-01 20:20 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1998-07-02 11:02 ` Carlo Wood
1998-07-03 0:12 ` Craig Burley
1998-07-03 0:50 ` Carlo Wood
1998-07-03 8:38 ` Craig Burley
1998-07-03 9:35 ` Carlo Wood
[not found] <199807031310.PAA24690@jolan.ppro>
1998-07-03 15:29 ` Craig Burley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-06-29 22:34 Mike Stump
1998-06-30 15:15 ` Craig Burley
1998-06-30 14:46 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-06-25 18:53 Carlo Wood
1998-06-26 2:49 ` Manfred Hollstein
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