On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Andrew Pinski wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote: > > 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. > > I agree. Here at Cavium, we use the packaged up toolchain that comes > from a RPM and test it so we are testing exactly what we ship out to > our customers.
Similarly at Mentor. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com