This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: PATCH Makefile.in
On Jul 4, 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:46:35AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> This is an argument for the removal of dejagnu and expect from the
>> tree, which I agree with. It's the one-line change in the test to
>> decide which RUNTEST to use that I'm opposing. I can't imagine such a
>> line is too much baggage to carry around. If you think so, well... I
>> guess I'll just shut up and wait until your next ports require changes
>> in dejagnu.
> I keep a local copy of dejagnu in my PATH. I've been doing this for
> years (and yes, I do deal with two ports that require changes in
> dejagnu). I find this way much more convenient...
But not as safe. E.g., I don't want net GCC test runs to be affected
by my local changes to dejagnu required by an ongoing port.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}