Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Sorry, Ulrich, I have been unable to make expect work on any of
> the Tru64 machines that we have. On one machine, it looks like
> we're exhausting within a few tests the pool of pseudo-ttys. And
> on the other machine, I have what looks like an echo issue that
> completely confuses the testsuite.  I tried the obvious tricks
> of re-installing newer versions of tcl and expect, but to no avail.
> Something is weird, because I *thought* I had it working on one
> of the machines before...

Thanks anyway for you efforts!  Could you at least verify that
GDB builds and survives a "break main; run" test with the patch?
If that's the case, I guess I'll apply it ...
 
> Eventually, we will end up testing this patch somewhat, because we
> maintain internally a tree that contains our latest changes merged
> to a recent snapshot of the FSF head, and we test it nightly against
> our in-house testsuite (which does not use expect/dejagnu). We will
> bitterly complain and start pointing fingers if something broke :-P.

Sure, I'll be happy to help if you find problems later on ;-)

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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