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Re: Changing the C/C++ compiler for gdb testsuite runs
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:26:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: Changing the C/C++ compiler for gdb testsuite runs
- References: <200201111023.KAA26358@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
> But since they don't come from the same CVS tree, I can't see how to do
> that cleanly without dicking around with the common code directories such
> as libiberty and include -- experience has shown that with the public CVS
> repositories that is fraught with problems. I have done it in the past,
> but it breaks the principal that the sources you are testing are the
> sources you are committing, so it isn't really a viable option.
Is the experience recent? At present mechanical processes help to
ensure that liberty and include are kept very much in sync (typically
only hours separate commits).
Andrew