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Re: [Gdb] removing src/dejagnu, src/expect
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: bje at au dot ibm dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:39:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [Gdb] removing src/dejagnu, src/expect
> At yesterday's GCC Summit testing BOF, there was a strong concensus
> that these directories should be removed from the src tree and that
> developers should install the latest releases of Expect and Dejagnu
> from their distribution/packaging system or from a source tarball at
> ftp.gnu.org.
Err, I'm kinda surprised that the "GCC Summit" has enough src/
people to make decisions about src/. Are Andrew Cagney (gdb)
and Daniel Jacobowitz (binutils) there?
Nevertheless, I'm all for killing these packages in src/!
src/expect dates back to 1998, that's just wrong.
I test gdb with the stock released versions: tcl 8.4.6 + expect 5.41.0 +
dejagnu 1.4.4. Here's my experience by host platform:
i686-pc-linux-gnu
run gdb test suite regularly. occasionally, i run with both
sourceware tcl+expect+dejagnu and stock tcl+expect+dejagnu
and compare the results. the results always match.
hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11
run gdb test suite occasionally. works fine.
alphaev68-dec-osf5.1
i386-unknown-freebsd4.9
ia64-hp-hpux11.22
ia64-hp-hpux11.23
built tcl+expect+dejagnu, haven't run them.
Watch out for Cygwin. Has anyone run the gdb test suite on Cygwin
recently? Can someone make two test runs, one with sourceware
tcl+expect+dejagnu and one with stock tcl+expect+dejagnu, and compare
the results?
Michael C