On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, James K. Lowden wrote:
> The Makefile fetches the NIST archive from our website. (We originally
> got it from NIST, but their site was reorganized last year. The file
> went missing, as apparently did my email to the webmaster.
> Technology!) The file might have 100 targets to run various bits. For
> gcc's purpose, only one matters: "make report".
The normal build and test process ("make" and "make check") must never
rely on any network connectivity. It's OK to have special maintainer-only
targets that connect to the network in order to update files in the source
tree, but normal running the testsuite must not do so; testsuite files
need to be checked in to be used by "make check".
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Joseph S. Myers
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