From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30693 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2004 22:56:53 -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 30676 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2004 22:56:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 15 Jun 2004 22:56:52 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaMrF-00042M-Je; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:56:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:56:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Zack Weinberg Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect Message-ID: <20040615225644.GA15439@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Zack Weinberg , Alexandre Oliva , Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <20040615141501.A19302@mailhub.air.net.au> <87zn74zevv.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> <87r7sgzc8p.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r7sgzc8p.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00164.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:29:26PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: > > > On Jun 15, 2004, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > >> And on the other side, I have repeatedly been burnt by systems with > >> tcl/expect headers installed globally which are incompatible with the > >> stuff in /cvs/src. I'd be much happier if tcl/tk/expect were all > >> three removed from src. > > > > My point is that you don't have to check them out if you don't want > > to. If it's just there for those who need it, it can't possibly > > hurt. > > It is surprisingly difficult to check out gdb without getting tcl/tk > as well. This is probably nothing to do with Ben, though. That's got nothing to do with getting rid of the in-tree expect/dejagnu; that has to do with the (long overdue) project to move Insight out of the GDB directory. If it were separate, the top-level rules could be less insistent about ./gdb/ requiring ./tcl/. -- Daniel Jacobowitz