Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

Ulrich,

> > > This all seems reasonable to me.  I believe that Joel has access to an
> > > OSF system at AdaCore; maybe he can test the patch for you?
> > 
> > Joel, would that be possible?
> 
> Absolutely! I'm away at the moment, but I'll be back on Tuesday,
> so I'll schedule a round of testing first thing when I get back.

Sorry, Ulrich, I have been unable to make expect work on any of
the Tru64 machines that we have. On one machine, it looks like
we're exhausting within a few tests the pool of pseudo-ttys. And
on the other machine, I have what looks like an echo issue that
completely confuses the testsuite.  I tried the obvious tricks
of re-installing newer versions of tcl and expect, but to no avail.
Something is weird, because I *thought* I had it working on one
of the machines before...

Eventually, we will end up testing this patch somewhat, because we
maintain internally a tree that contains our latest changes merged
to a recent snapshot of the FSF head, and we test it nightly against
our in-house testsuite (which does not use expect/dejagnu). We will
bitterly complain and start pointing fingers if something broke :-P.

-- 
Joel