[LLVMdev] Unexpected failures in the DejaGNU test collection

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Devang Patel<devang.patel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Dunbar<daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
>> Since it came up, what is blocking us from putting these tests in the
>> llvm-gcc test suite instead of in the LLVM test suite?
>
> Usually we want to check these tests regularly against llvm backend
> changes.

Thats fine, but meaningless. If the backend changes and llvm-gcc isn't
built, it accomplishes nothing. There is a fundamental flaw in
checking in the tests for tool FOO into the repository for tool BAR.

> The nightly tester does not svn update and rebuild llvm-gcc
> hence these tests are in LLVM Test Suite.

This is a solvable problem.

> BTW, llvm-gcc test suite already has llvm.objc and llvm-obj-c++ folders for
> llvm related tests.

Ok.

 - Daniel

> -
> Devang
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