Testing egcs
Before you install egcs, you might wish to run the egcs testsuite;
this step is optional and may require you to download additional
software.
First, you must have downloaded the egcs testsuites; the full
distribution contains testsuites. If you downloaded the "core"
compiler plus any front ends, then you do not have the testsuites. You
can download the testsuites from the same site where you downloaded
the core distribution and language front ends.
Note, dejagnu will not build/run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Second, you must have a new version of dejagnu on your system;
dejagnu-1.3 will not work. We have made a [1]dejagnu snapshot
available in egcs.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs/infrastructure until a new
version of dejagnu can be released.
Assuming you've got the testsuites unpacked and have installed an
appropriate dejagnu, you can run the testsuite with "cd _objdir_; make
-k check". This may take a long time. Go get some lunch.
The testing process will try to test as many components in the egcs
distribution as possible, including the C, C++ and Fortran compiler as
well as the C++ runtime libraries.
How to interpret test results TBD.
It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
current time our testing harness does not allow fine grained control
over whether or not a test is expected to fail. We expect to fix this
problem in future releases.
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_Last modified on August 29, 1998._
References
1. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/dejagnu-980528.tar.gz