Re: recent dejagnu changes

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Geoff Keating wrote:
> 
> dejagnu is shared between GDB, GCC, and binutils, just as BFD is
> shared between binutils and GDB.  For such shared code, it is
> extremely impolite to make a change without testing it on all the
> users.

However, in the absence of a dejagnu maintainer, I don't think it's
unreasonable of Jimmy to ask for help in validating the testing
framework on packages with which he is unfamiliar.  For instance,
if he doesn't know what the expected behavior is supposed to be
with the GCC testsuite, how is having him run the testsuite one
time going to be helpful?  Also, what would you suggest if, as
is frequently the case, he tries to build GCC from CVS and it
doesn't even build on his machine, let alone get to the point of
being able to test it?

Since we all have a common interest in making dejagnu work well,
and no benevolent dejagnu dictator to force us to get along :-),
let's try to help each other here.

Stan