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• INSTALL (modified) (2 diffs)
• tests/pybin/tools.py (modified) (1 diff)

INSTALL

@@ -9 +9 @@
 
   $ ./autogen.sh
-  $ ./configure [ --prefix=/some/directory ]
+  $ ./configure
   $ make -j 8 install
 
-For users using the distributed tarball / github:
+For users using the distributed tarball:
 
   $ ./configure
@@ -20 +20 @@
 
 
-Options for configure
+Options for 'configure'
 ======================================
-The script 'configure' accepts many command-line arguments.  Run
+The script 'configure' accepts many command line arguments.  Run './configure
+--help' to see a list of all of them.  This document attempts to summarize the
+most useful arguments.
 
-  $ ./configure --help
-
-to list them.  The most common argument is:
-
-  --prefix=/some/directory controls the path prefix common to all installed
-    cfa-cc components.  Components are installed in directories bin and lib.
-    If unspecified, prefix defaults to /usr/local.  To use (a subdirectory of)
-    your home directory, ${HOME}/some/dir, but do not put quotes around the
-    directory path; Cforall may appear to build, but the installed version may
-    not work properly.
+--prefix=/some/directory controls the path prefix common to all installed
+  cfa-cc components.  Some components are installed in /some/directory/bin,
+  others in /some/directory/lib.  If unspecified, this defaults to /usr/local.
+  To use (a subdirectory of) your home directory, ${HOME}/some/dir works, but
+  it is important not to put quotes around the directory path; Cforall may
+  appear to build, but the installed version may not work properly.
 
 

tests/pybin/tools.py

@@ -376 +376 @@
                 return 1, "ERR No core dump"
 
-        try:
-                return sh('gdb', '-n', path, core, '-batch', '-x', cmd, output_file=subprocess.PIPE)
-        except:
-                return 1, "ERR Could not read core with gdb"
+        return sh('gdb', '-n', path, core, '-batch', '-x', cmd, output_file=subprocess.PIPE)
 
 def core_archive(dst, name, exe):