From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23562 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2003 23:18:35 -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 23545 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2003 23:18:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (129.22.114.26) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2003 23:18:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 17540 invoked by uid 500); 1 Apr 2003 23:18:55 -0000 To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Cc: dewar@gnat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite) In-Reply-To: <10303291407.AA03222@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> (kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu's message of "Sat, 29 Mar 03 09:07:55 EST") References: <10303291407.AA03222@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner), dewar@gnat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote: > The risk, in my opinion, of changing "make check" to use the compiler in > PATH, rather than in the build directory, is that a lot of people are going > to accidentally run the check on the wrong compiler. "make check" could look at the configuration in the build directory to find out where the compiler should have been installed, and look there rather than in $PATH. paul