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Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gp at suse dot de>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:47:28 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: DejaGnu 1.4.4 release
- References: <87smhxiu5d.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <40229AA6.4010005@gnu.org><87llnhb6sq.fsf@wasabisystems.com>
On Thu, 6 Feb 2004, Ben Elliston wrote:
>> - should src/dejagnu/ be replaced?
> IMHO, yes. The 1.4.4 release is very close to the version in
> src/dejagnu. I've since merged a handful of patches from src -> FSF
> that were missed and I've a patch that can be applied after a 1.4.4
> import that will ensure that nothing will be lost from src/dejagnu.
Thanks!
>> - should src/dejagnu/ be removed?
> What would the alternative be? To just expect (ha!) developers to
> have DejaGnu installed on their systems?
Yes. If not right away, than in the mid term: we require casual
testers of CVS GCC to have bison and developers to have autoconf
etc.; and if upstream DejaGnu "just works", let's use that.
Most distributions will provide DejaGnu as a package anyway.
Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.de> Technical Project Manager, SUSE Linux AG