dejagnu testsuite

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:23:51 -0400 (EDT), "Joel N. Weber II" wrote:
>
>   >>>>> Zack Weinberg writes:
>
>    > Disadvantages are that you have to put the tests in one directory
>    > instead of with the source (minor IMO) and you need Expect (could be
>    > an issue).
>
>   I didn't look at it so far but have a `philosophical' problem: 
>   I would prefer if every user is able to run the testsuite without
>   getting other tools.  glibc is in some ways one of the most important
>   packages on a system - and therefore `make check' should be run by
>   every user.
>
>It might be possible to work around that by including all of expect
>and dejagnu with libc.  However, if I remember correctly, expect
>requires tcl, so that might not really be practical...
>

It's definitely impractical.  Now that I think about it, it wouldn't be too
hard to redo the framework in ksh scripts, and I wouldn't mind dumping @!$%
Tcl anyway.

zw