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Re: Finding runtest
- To: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: Finding runtest
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:31:32 +1000
- CC: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <200004121100.MAA17801@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> gdb comes with dejagnu as part of the distribution (to ensure we use one
> with the correct features). Most of the time, the make system will pick
> this up automatically and use it in preference to any version that is
> installed on the path. Unfortunately, this is not the case when checking
> dejagnu itself. In this case, it will only work using a version that has
> already been installed.
>
> The effect of this is that "make check" will fail when trying to check
> dejagnu if dejagnu has not been previously installed on the path.
>
> I'm not entirely convinced that it is correct for a test program to be
> testing itself, but the current behaviour is a bit inconsistent.
>
> Sorry no patch at the moment (I only came across this at home last night)
> and haven't had chance to fix it yet.
FYI, I suspect people have ``make check-gdb'' engrained in their
fingers.
Andrew