Peter Barada wrote:
The alternative of course is to do only crossbuilds.  Is it reasonable
to say that, for platforms where a bootstrap is no longer feasible, a
successful crossbuild is an acceptable test procedure to use instead?

A successful crossbuild is certainly the minimum concievable standard.
Perhaps one should also require bootstrapping the C compiler alone;
that would provide at least some sanity-checking.


Unfortunately for some of the embedded targets(like the ColdFire V4e
work I'm doing), a bootstrap is impossible due to limited memory and
no usable mass-storage device on the hardware I have available, so
hopefully a successful crossbuild will suffice.

How about a successful crossbuild plus passing some regression test suite, e.g. gcc's, glibc's, and/or ltp's? Any one of them would provide a nice reality check. - Dan

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