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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Elliston <bje+dated+1087798498.8ed310@air.net.au>,
	Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>,
	Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com>,
	Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D04F15.8030007@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <or7ju80yl0.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

> As for who's going to keep it up-to-date, whoever finds that there are
> problems in what's in there.

Unfortunately, reality rears it's ugly head - what you suggest hasn't 
happened - no one cares enough about src/expect/ to fix it.  I've even 
investigated the effort needed to upgrade expect and decided to walk 
away from the problem - total waste of my time.  Far easier to just use 
the standard expect shipped with the distro's I use.  At least the 
bundled expect works on 64-bit machines like amd64.

Independent of what happens to this thread, I think GDB (and GCC?) 
should clarify their test procedures so that they don't direct the 
developer towards src/expect/.  (Ben, think of this as plan B, if none 
of the GNU projects use/recommend src/expect/ et.al., do they still 
exist? :-)

Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-16 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-15  4:15 Ben Elliston
2004-06-15 20:35 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-15 21:32   ` Zack Weinberg
2004-06-15 22:24     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-15 22:29       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-06-15 22:56         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-06-15 23:07         ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-15 23:40           ` Andreas Schwab
2004-06-15 22:50       ` Joe Buck
2004-06-16  3:34         ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-16  3:35           ` Ben Elliston
2004-06-16  6:11             ` Joel Brobecker
2004-06-16  6:15               ` Ben Elliston
2004-06-16  7:08                 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-16 13:46                   ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-06-16 16:30                   ` Joe Buck
2004-06-16 19:53                     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-06-16 22:48                       ` Ben Elliston
2004-06-16 16:27           ` Joe Buck
2004-06-15 22:43   ` Ben Elliston
2004-06-15  4:37 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-06-16 15:31 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-06-17  3:24 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-06-17 17:30 ` Christopher Faylor

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