Re: Question regarding min reqd dejagnu version

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 04.10.2022 12:20, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>>     I am checking in the attached patch to update the README-maintainer-mode
>>>     file so that it also lists a minimum version of dejagnu required to run
>>>     the testsuites.
> 
>> I'm concerned: We support building with pretty old gcc. The minimum
>> dejagnu version is now much newer, which will require me to see if I
>> can sensibly build myself a newer version of it on some of my older
>> systems, not even thinking of yet whether it'll be possible to
>> install the newer version side by side with the distro provided one.
> 
> Well the intent of the change was to ensure that we are using a version
> of dejagnu that will work with gcc version 5 or later, which seems pretty
> old to me.  Do you have a suggestion for a better minimum version, or do
> you think that instead tests that do require newer versions of dejagnu
> should check for that before they run ?

I think checking for features before use would be the preferred way to go.
What I could see (albeit personally I'd dislike it) is the setting of a
coherent baseline of tools needed to build the tree (which would in
particular include a baseline gcc version).

>> Also - is this patch really meant to also change src-release.sh?
> 
> Did that go in ?  I thought that I had managed to keep it out.  I will check.

My reply was solely based on the attachment in your mail.

Jan