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Re: enabling shared builds
- From: Kris Van Hees <kris dot van dot hees at oracle dot com>
- To: frysk <frysk at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:37:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: enabling shared builds
- References: <476146B5.7020606@redhat.com> <47614961.5090901@redhat.com>
> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> - switch to install-tree testing
> Would mean breaking configure convention and set --prefix=. On the other
> hand it would mean only testing one way.
Definitely a big 'no' on this one. For one, forcing an install of development
builds in order to be able to test it is asking for trouble. Secondly, it is
(hopefully) going to be more likely in the future that a system will have frysk
already installed as part of the OS install, and a development build shouldn't
wipe out the installed version for sure. Thirdly, it is common practice with
software projects to follow a 'build -> test -> install' sequence, which is
generally the most sensible way because you wouldn't want to install something
that is broken, i.e. test before you install.
Cheers,
Kris