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Re: dejagnu testsuite
- To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.org>
- Subject: Re: dejagnu testsuite
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:08:47 -0400
- cc: aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de, libc-hacker@gnu.org
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:23:51 -0400 (EDT), "Joel N. Weber II" wrote:
>
> >>>>> Zack Weinberg writes:
>
> > Disadvantages are that you have to put the tests in one directory
> > instead of with the source (minor IMO) and you need Expect (could be
> > an issue).
>
> I didn't look at it so far but have a `philosophical' problem:
> I would prefer if every user is able to run the testsuite without
> getting other tools. glibc is in some ways one of the most important
> packages on a system - and therefore `make check' should be run by
> every user.
>
>It might be possible to work around that by including all of expect
>and dejagnu with libc. However, if I remember correctly, expect
>requires tcl, so that might not really be practical...
>
It's definitely impractical. Now that I think about it, it wouldn't be too
hard to redo the framework in ksh scripts, and I wouldn't mind dumping @!$%
Tcl anyway.
zw