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<h1 class="settitle">Installing GCC: Testing</h1>
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<a name="index-Testing-1"></a><a name="index-Installing-GCC_003a-Testing-2"></a><a name="index-Testsuite-3"></a>
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Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
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compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
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been submitted to the
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<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/">gcc-testresults mailing list</a>.
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Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
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at <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html</a>, although not everyone who
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reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
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This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
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but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
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problems before you install and start using your new GCC.
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   <p>First, you must have <a href="download.html">downloaded the testsuites</a>.
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These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
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&ldquo;core&rdquo; compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
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separately.
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   <p>Second, you must have the testing tools installed.  This includes
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/">DejaGnu</a>, Tcl, and Expect;
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the DejaGnu site has links to these.
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   <p>If the directories where <samp><span class="command">runtest</span></samp> and <samp><span class="command">expect</span></samp> were
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installed are not in the <samp><span class="env">PATH</span></samp>, you may need to set the following
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environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
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assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>):
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          DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
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   <p>(On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
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paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
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portability in the DejaGnu code.)
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   <p>Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
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<pre class="smallexample">          cd <var>objdir</var>; make -k check
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   <p>This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
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front ends and runtime libraries.  While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
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might emit some harmless messages resembling
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`<samp><span class="samp">WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.</span></samp>' or
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`<samp><span class="samp">WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file</span></samp>' that can be ignored.
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<h3 class="section"><a name="TOC0"></a>0.1 How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?</h3>
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<p>In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
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`<samp><span class="samp">make check-gcc</span></samp>' and `<samp><span class="samp">make check-g++</span></samp>'
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in the <samp><span class="file">gcc</span></samp> subdirectory of the object directory.  You can also
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just run `<samp><span class="samp">make check</span></samp>' in a subdirectory of the object directory.
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   <p>A more selective way to just run all <samp><span class="command">gcc</span></samp> execute tests in the
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   <p>Likewise, in order to run only the <samp><span class="command">g++</span></samp> &ldquo;old-deja&rdquo; tests in
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the testsuite with filenames matching `<samp><span class="samp">9805*</span></samp>', you would use
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   <p>The <samp><span class="file">*.exp</span></samp> files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
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source, the most important ones being <samp><span class="file">compile.exp</span></samp>,
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<samp><span class="file">execute.exp</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">dg.exp</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">old-deja.exp</span></samp>.
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`<samp><span class="samp">Running ...  .exp</span></samp>' lines.
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`<samp><span class="samp">RUNTESTFLAGS</span></samp>', or directly to <samp><span class="command">runtest</span></samp> if you prefer to
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slashes separate options.
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with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
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   <p>They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways.  This
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parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and <samp><span class="command">make</span></samp>
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<h3 class="section"><a name="TOC2"></a>0.3 Additional testing for Java Class Libraries</h3>
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files in the testsuite subdirectories.  The <samp><span class="file">*.log</span></samp> files contain a
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