On 08/23/2016 04:15 PM, Trevor Saunders wrote:
I've certainly been tempted to take a stab at at least replacing the
expect stuff with something else, it drives me kind of crazy to see how
much testsuite time is spent running expect. Even if we can't do all of
it, the vast majority is just run the compiler and grep dump files or
the compiler's stdout / stderr.
Yup. When Rob was making noise about rewriting dejagnu I tried to steer
him a bit towards instead replacing the expect layer, but his plans
where more on the tcl/dejagnu side. I don't think anything ever came
out of that proposal.
Expect is severe overkill for what we need and yes, it burns an amazing
about of CPU time for what get out of it.
Jeff
