On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 10:36 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > On 09/16/2015 10:25 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > > > > > > On 16/09/15 17:14, Mike Stump wrote: > >> On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@suse.de> > >> wrote: > >>> Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> writes: > >>> > >>>> The software presently works with 1.4.4 and there aren’t any > >>>> changes that require anything newer. > >>> > >>> SLES 12 has 1.4.4. > >> > >> Would be nice to cover them as well, but their update schedule, 3-4 > >> years, means that their next update is 2018. They didn’t update to > >> a 3 year old stable release of dejagnu for their last OS, meaning > >> they are on a > 7 year update cycle. I love embedded and really > >> long term support cycles (20 years), but, don’t think we should > >> cater to the 20 year cycle just yet. :-) Since 7 is substantially > >> longer than 2, I don’t think we should worry about it. If they had > >> updated at the time, they would have had 3 years of engineering and > >> testing before the release and _had_ 1.5. > >> > > > > Sorry about the obvious (possibly dumb) question. > > > > Can't we just import a copy of dejagnu each year and install it as > > part of the source tree ? I can't imagine installing dejagnu is > > adding a huge amount of time to build and regression test time ? > > Advantage is that everyone is guaranteed to be on the same version. I > > fully expect resistance due to specific issues with specific versions > > of tcl and expect, but if folks aren't aware of this ..... > That should work -- certainly that's the way we used to do things at > Cygnus. Some of that code may have bitrotted as single tree builds have > fallen out-of-favor through the years. > > As to whether or not its a good idea. I'm torn -- I don't like copying > code from other repos because of the long term maintenance concerns. > > I'd rather just move to 1.5 and get on with things.
AIUI, we specifically need >= 1.5.3 (or a version with a backport) to get support for multiple load_lib paths mentioned by Bernhard, which is what motivated this thread (on gcc-patches, before it spread to the gcc list): https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-09/msg01196.html https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-09/msg00983.html > If some systems > don't have a new enough version, I'm comfortable telling developers on > those platforms that they need to update. It's not like every *user* > needs dejagnu, it's just for the testing side of things. > > > jeff
