[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: dejagnu requires tcl 8.6?
From: |
Steve Ellcey |
Subject: |
Re: dejagnu requires tcl 8.6? |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:23:55 -0800 |
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 07:27 +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hi Steve
>
> I made this change because I thought it was safe to do so. I was
> wrong. :-) My build of Expect has Tcl 8.6 and 8.6 was released almost
> 8 years ago. 8.6 has a few features that would help us clean up some
> of the nastier code in DejaGnu (eg, exec has -ignorestderr).
>
> I'm happy to go back to 8.5 if we really must.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
Using tcl 8.5 would make my life easier, I build GCC on older systems
because we want to support GCC on those systems and they have tcl 8.5 as
the standard installed tcl (Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6).
Steve Ellcey