Re: dejagnu version update?

[David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 August 2017 at 14:55, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Rainer Orth
>> <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>>> Hi H.J.,
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:32 AM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:24 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:01 AM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> FYI, DejaGNU 1.6.1 is not compatible with the GCC Testsuite.  The GCC
>>>>>>> Testsuite uses "unsetenv" in multiple instances and that feature has
>>>>>>> been removed from DejaGNU.  The testsuite is going to experience
>>>>>>> DejaGNU errors when Fedora or OpenSUSE upgrades to a more recent
>>>>>>> DejaGNU in the 1.6 series.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am running Fedora 26 with dejagnu-1.6-2.fc26.  What should I
>>>>>> look for?
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR: (DejaGnu) proc "unsetenv GCC_EXEC_PREFIX" does not exist.
>>>>> The error code is NONE
>>>>> The info on the error is:
>>>>> invalid command name "unsetenv"
>>>>>     while executing
>>>>> "::tcl_unknown unsetenv GCC_EXEC_PREFIX"
>>>>>     ("uplevel" body line 1)
>>>>>     invoked from within
>>>>> "uplevel 1 ::tcl_unknown $args"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I checked my log.  I didn't see them.  Which log file do they appear in?
>>>
>>> unsetenv was only removed after DejaGnu 1.6 was released.  The change is
>>> in the git repo; so far there exists no post-1.6 release.
>>
>> That is why I wrote 1.6.1.  I didn't know if 1.6-2 was from snapshot after 1.6.
>
> The -2 is just because the Fedora package got rebuilt, H.J.'s version
> is 1.6, and looking at the Fedora package it's unmodified from the
> upstream 1.6 release. So Fedora doesn't have the change yet, even in
> rawhide.

I reported the impact on the DejaGnu bugs mailing list.  Ben reverted
the change.

dejagnu-git now provides the unsetenv proc.

- David