On Jul  1, 2026, Rainer Orth <[email protected]> wrote:

> gcc/libgcc.a will not be found and finding et-static.exp will
> fail.

I think my -print-file-name suggestion would help with that, and also
with installed testing.


To be clear, I'm not so concerned about using some random source tree to
test a very old installed compiler.  I don't think that's a scenario
worth worrying about.

What I expect to be far more common (though not anywhere as common as
build-tree testing, sadly) is for someone to build, install, (package?),
deploy, and then test the toolchain as a user would, using the
corresponding testsuite because that's what that compiler version is
supposed to be compatible with.  So if that testsuite expects there to
be a et-static.exp or whatever, it shall find it, instead of requiring
additional steps for it to be there.

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