Re: isolationtester and 'specs' subdirectory

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I eventually tracked down the cause of this failure to a trailing ':'
> in my $LIBRARY_PATH, which causes gcc to look inside the current
> directory for a 'specs' file [1] among other things. Although I
> probably don't need that trailing ':', it seems like we should avoid
> naming this directory 'specs' nonetheless to avoid confusion with gcc.
>
> Renaming the 'specs' directory to something like 'isolation_specs' and
> adjusting isolation_main.c accordingly lets me pass `make
> check-world`. Proposed patch attached.

This seems like pretty stupid behavior on the part of gcc. And, we're
generally reluctant to rename things too blithely because it
complicates back-patching. But on the flip side, back-patching
changes to the isolation specs is probably a rare event.

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