From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15857 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2004 20:57:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15840 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2004 20:57:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.22.40) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Jun 2004 20:57:34 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id CB614400662; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:57:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:57:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Gdb] removing src/dejagnu, src/expect Message-ID: <20040608205733.GA7643@coe.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20040607215757.4F2554B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040607215757.4F2554B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:57:57PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: >Jim Ingham writes: >>I just reran the gdb testsuite - on the Apple gdb but this shouldn't >>make much difference - with the Expect 5.38 from the SourceForge >>sources, and with Tcl 8.4.4, also from SourceForge, and I didn't see >>any new failures compared with the expect & tcl from src/. > >I've done a similar comparison with the gdb testsuite on native >i686-pc-linux-gnu, (red hat 8.0, LANG=en_US.UTF-8), and the results >came out the same. I've been using the released versions of >tcl+expect+dejagnu for 2.5 years now. > >That's just gdb experience though. > >I'm okay with shooting first and fixing problems later. The problem with that approach is that you can't necessarily fix all of the problems can you? In particular, as you noted in the gcc mailing list, Cygwin could be a problem. I'm not really looking to take on new projects right now myself. Maybe someone else will volunteer to look at this as far as Cygwin is concerned. cgf