On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote:
> If the presence of the build > tree makes writing some tests significantly simpler, I think that is > OK. I would like to discourage that. Testing an already installed GCC for which no build tree exists is a very useful feature. Internally, we have a very strong dependency on this feature. If it were to disappear, it would be almost impossible for us to test the compiler at the massive scale that we do. Diego.