On 05/15/2017 04:54 PM, Martin Jambor wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 01:25:18PM -0400, Trevor Saunders wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:36:47AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >>> > > ... > >>> I'd rather just move to 1.5 and get on with things. 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. >> >> yeah, it seems like a poor idea to slow down progress we make for all >> users to benefit a few people who want to develope on rather old >> machines. >>
The relying on system dejagnu on old distributions has been a sure recipe for people avoiding fixing / improving dejagnu. I mean, why bother, if your fix will only be generally available in 10 years when older distros are finally phased out? > Could we at least make sure that machines in the FSF compile farm have > a new enough dejagnu before move to requiring at least 1.5? > > I understand that may be a tall order, given that some machines > (e.g. gcc117) do not have dejagnu at all and this was reported some > time ago :-( > Maybe download_prerequisites could be taught to handle downloading and setting up dejagnu [1], making it mostly a non-issue? [1] Last time I needed to do it, it was mostly plain old configure/make/make install IIRC, assuming new-enough tcl/expect. Building a newer tcl/expect would be a bit more work of course. Thanks, Pedro Alves
