gcc-4.5-RH in F14

[Caolán McNamara]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:51 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> That's not so easy to generalize.  As Jakub wrote, you need some form of
> workload.  After the binaries are built this workload has to be
> executed.  How to do that cannot really be summarized.  Some packages
> might need to be installed to function.  Others need permissions etc.
> Some might need interaction.  For console programs you can do that using
> expect but for GUI programs...
> 
> After the workload is run you need to rebuild everything again while
> pointing to the files created by running the workload.  The first stage
> binaries automatically create those files.

As an aside, OpenOffice.org has a smoketest where OOo is run headless,
i.e. without DISPLAY, to open/save various documents and other brief
representative sanity tests. Might be tempting, maybe too tempting, to
experiment with that. Though double building OOo every time isn't
massively appetising.

C.