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<h1>Installing GCC: Testing</h1>
Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
been submitted to the
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/">gcc-testresults mailing list</a>.
Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
at <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html</a>, although not everyone who
reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
problems before you install and start using your new GCC.

<p>First, you must have <a href="download.html">downloaded the testsuites</a>.
These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
"core" compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
separately.

<p>Second, you must have the testing tools installed.  This includes
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/">DejaGnu</a> 1.4.1 or 1.4.3
and later, Tcl, and Expect; the DejaGnu site has links to these.

<p>If the directories where <code>runtest</code> and <code>expect</code> were
installed are not in the <code>PATH</code>, you may need to set the following
environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under <code>/usr/local</code>):

<br><pre>     TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
     DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
</pre>

<p>(On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
portability in the DejaGnu code.)

<p>Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
<br><pre>     cd <var>objdir</var>; make -k check
</pre>

<p>This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
front ends and runtime libraries.  While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
might emit some harmless messages resembling
<code>WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.</code> or
<code>WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file</code> that can be ignored.

<h3><a name="TOC0"></a>How can I run the test suite on selected tests?</h3>

<p>In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
<code>make check-gcc</code> and <code>make check-g++</code>
in the <code>gcc</code> subdirectory of the object directory.  You can also
just run <code>make check</code> in a subdirectory of the object directory.

<p>A more selective way to just run all <code>gcc</code> execute tests in the
testsuite is to use

<br><pre>    make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp <var>other-options</var>"
</pre>

<p>Likewise, in order to run only the <code>g++</code> "old-deja" tests in
the testsuite with filenames matching <code>9805*</code>, you would use

<br><pre>    make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* <var>other-options</var>"
</pre>

<p>The <code>*.exp</code> files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
source, the most important ones being <code>compile.exp</code>,
<code>execute.exp</code>, <code>dg.exp</code> and <code>old-deja.exp</code>.
To get a list of the possible <code>*.exp</code> files, pipe the
output of <code>make check</code> into a file and look at the
<code>Running <small>...</small>  .exp</code> lines.

<p>The Java runtime tests can be executed via <code>make check</code>
in the <code><var>target</var>/libjava/testsuite</code> directory in
the build tree.

<h3><a name="TOC1"></a>Additional testing for Java Class Libraries</h3>

<p>The <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/">Mauve Project</a> provides
a suite of tests for the Java Class Libraries.  This suite can be run
as part of libgcj testing by placing the Mauve tree within the libjava
testsuite at <code>libjava/testsuite/libjava.mauve/mauve</code>, or by
specifying the location of that tree when invoking <code>make</code>, as in
<code>make MAUVEDIR=~/mauve check</code>.

<a href="http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/cvs/jikes/~checkout~/jacks/jacks.html">Jacks</a>
is a free test suite that tests Java compiler front ends.  This suite
can be run as part of libgcj testing by placing the Jacks tree within
the libjava testsuite at <code>libjava/testsuite/libjava.jacks/jacks</code>.

<h3><a name="TOC2"></a>How to interpret test results</h3>

<p>The result of running the testsuite are various <code>*.sum</code> and <code>*.log</code>
files in the testsuite subdirectories.  The <code>*.log</code> files contain a
detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
results, the <code>*.sum</code> files summarize the results.  These summaries
contain status codes for all tests:

<ul>
<li>PASS: the test passed as expected
<li>XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
<li>FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
<li>XFAIL: the test failed as expected
<li>UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
<li>ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
<li>WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
</ul>

<p>It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures.  At the
current time our testing harness does not allow fine grained control
over whether or not a test is expected to fail.  We expect to fix this
problem in future releases.

<h3><a name="TOC3"></a>Submitting test results</h3>

<p>If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
<code>contrib/test_summary</code> shell script.  Start it in the <var>objdir</var> with

<br><pre>    <var>srcdir</var>/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
        -m gcc-testresults@gcc.gnu.org |sh
</pre>

<p>This script uses the <code>Mail</code> program to send the results, so
make sure it is in your <code>PATH</code>.  The file <code>your_commentary.txt</code> is
prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
remarks you have on your results or your build environment.  Please
do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
messages may be automatically processed.

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