egcs testsuites and dejagnu (problem solved)

egcs testsuites and dejagnu (problem solved)

[Carlo Wood]

Oops, you can ignore my last post...

Although indeed testing a package that is a compiler is a special case,
dejagnu DOES support it :/ (sorry, I am totally new to dejagnu as well).
From libgloss.exp:

# Get the list of directories and -m options for gcc. This is kinda bogus that
# generic testing software needs support for gcc hardwired in, but to make
# testing the GNU tools work right, there didn't seem to be any other way.
#

proc get_multilibs { args } {
...


and yep, that is exactly where lookfor_dir_with_trigger.patch does make
its changes :).  In other words, I redid the research of H.J. Lu and came
to the same conclusion: lookfor_dir_with_trigger.patch definitely is needed
to make it work.  And that is final.

HOWEVER, the reason that dejagnu-980528 does NOT work anymore, while
dejagnu-971222 does work (both with lookfor_dir_with_trigger) is a bug
in egcs.  I wrote a patch for it and will post that to egcs-patches.
(And the funny thing is that I already fixed this before I even tried
 dejagnu-980528 ;).

Closing this subject,

Carlo Wood

PS CC to law@cygnus.com because the list is kinda slow.  I CC-ed him with
   the previous post too because I especially wanted to hear a "go" from
   him and didn't want to wait too long ;). Jeffrey: Ignore that previous
   mail please, and sorry.