I've had problems with this before also.

(when I fixed exception handling a while back I used the testsuite to test
it and it was clumsy to use like this. I ended up just writing a makefile
to do the tests for me on that one area).

James

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>|    Unfortunately, this does not use the installed compiler.  Sigh.
>|    So you need to stick the testsuite tree on the end of
>|    src/gnu/dist/toolchain/gcc/ and use that instead.
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>| it's easy to do "install-tree" testing.  just set CC, etc.
>| and run make check as usual.
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>When I tried setting CC it was ignored.  I think the testsuite
>is hard-wired to use .../gcc/xgcc for tests.
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>Eduardo
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