Re: [Bug-dejagnu] More about dejagnu bug

[Rob Savoye]

On 10/15/09 14:09, JohnT wrote:

> The bug producing bad "make check" results in dejagnu-1.4.4.tar.gz
> should not have been in the release file. Responsible releases should
> compile, not abend with errors, and after compilation they should "make
> check" without a lot of errors. If you have a good installation of GNU
> make, GNU m4, very recent autogen, autoconf and automake, a recent GCC,
> good current tcl, tk and expect, your dejagnu source should compile and
> test with no compile errors and few "make check" errors. It's a mature
> program that should not have problems.

  Bitching doesn't solve the problem. "make check" works just fine on 
both my up-to-date Fedora 11 and Ubuntu Jaunty & Karmic systems from trunk.

> But when you compile and test your dejagnu tarball, you find that it
> tests awfully. The scripts and maybe the makefiles of it need debugging.
> It previously worked.

  Previously when ? 1.4.4 went out years ago...

> Dejagnu is needed to test new GCC versions among other key programs.

  Yes, we realize that, which is why DejaGnu goes a long time between 
releases to stay relatively stable.

        - rob -