Re: Question regarding min reqd dejagnu version

[Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>]

On 10/3/22 03:23, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Indu,
> 
>> I am wondering what should be the expectation here. Is there a minimum 
>> version of dejagnu that can be expected from the users ?
> 
> At the moment, no.  There nearest thing that I could find was this text in
> gdb/README:
> 
>     Running the testsuite requires the prior installation of DejaGNU,
>     which is generally available via ftp.  The directory
>     ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dejagnu/ will contain a recent snapshot.
> 
> There is a function to test for dejagnu.h in config/acinclude.m4, but as
> far as I can tell it is never used.
> 
> Based upon what you have discovered I would guess that a minimum of
> Dejagnu 1.5.3 is required, do you agree ?  (I was going to suggest 1.5.2
> but it appears that the 1.5.3 release came out a month later, which
> suggests that it was issued in order to fix an important bug).
> 

You're right - with dejagnu 1.5.2, libsframe testsuite works well. The 
specific commit that fixes this issue should be:

ad36659 Steve Ellcey    2014-10-24    * dejagnu.h (pass): Make function 
static as well as inline.

 From the release notes, the following two commits which made to 1.5.3 
seem relevant (perhaps especially the first one) -

5256bd8 H.J. Lu 2015-02-26  * lib/target.exp (default_target_compile): 
Prepend multilib_flags, instead of appending it.
3249854 Stephen Tridgell 2015-02-18 * lib/framework.exp (log_and_exit): 
Set tool to "testrun" if unset.

Thanks

> Cheers
>    Nick
>