Re: testsuite under wine

[NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:30 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> NightStrike wrote:
> > [...]
> > I did another little test to try to better understand your point.  I
> > ran a linux native testsuite under a simulator that just sets SIM to "
> > ".  This resulted in extra ^M's also, although many tests pass because
> > they're already looking for \r\n to accommodate windows.  So I think
> > I've come around to grasp what you've been heroically re-explaining...
> >
> > So if we have to modify every test in the entire testsuite to check
> > for zero or more \r's followed by zero or more \n's, would it be
> > better to add a dg-output-line proc that does this automatically
> > everywhere?
>
> Two problems:  first, you need zero-or-more \r and *one*-or-more \n.
> Second, dg-output is not defined as an anchored match, and therefore
> cannot do this automatically.

"or more" \n is valid?  That would make the rust bug of \r\r\n\n pass
when I assume it shouldn't.

> >   I feel like changing every output pattern test won't be
> > too maintainable.  You had mentioned previously modifying ${tool}_load
> > to filter out extra \r's, but I couldn't see where or how to do that.
> >
> > For completeness, setting a random selection of tests to look for
> > \r*\n? worked (this would cover even deprecated systems that only use
> > CR as well as flagging the weird rust case of \r\r\n\n as bad).
>
> Do not worry about classic Mac OS---running DejaGnu on that platform is
> not possible, nor is it possible to run test programs remotely on that
> platform.  Classic Mac OS is a pure-GUI system with no command interface
> whatsoever.  Even the Mac port of Tcl simply /does/ /not/ /have/ the Tcl
> exec(n) command.  Due to limitations of the platform, porting Expect to
> classic Mac OS is simply not possible.  Any compatibility layer would be
> reasonably expected to translate CR<->LF, if, for example, someone wrote
> a telnet server (and associated POSIX-alike environment) for Mac OS.
>
> The later Mac OS X is a quasi-POSIX mostly compatible with the GNU
> system that uses POSIX line endings.  DejaGnu should run normally there.
>
> Are there other systems that used bare CR as end-of-line?  If not, the
> correct pattern is therefore {\r*\n} (here written using braces as
> quotes around the pattern).

Maybe none that matter.  From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation:

Commodore 8-bit machines (C64, C128), Acorn BBC, ZX Spectrum, TRS-80,
Apple II series, Oberon, the classic Mac OS, MIT Lisp Machine and OS-9

The article also goes on to mention that OpenVMS and RSX-11 can be
configured to use CR.