Re: DejaGnu 1.4 release

[Rob Savoye <rob at welcomehome dot org>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:06:47AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> (i.e., truncated in the middle of a line of output, near the end of the
> compiler's diagnostic output, after "form" which should be part of the
> word "format").  I don't know where in the gcc/dejagnu/tcl/expect
> combination this problem lies, but some people see it and others don't,
> and there could be dependence on the length of the path to one's GCC
> source tree as well as the versions of the different components.

  This would potentially be a problem with Tcl or Expect. I'll try to dig into
it, but I'd guess the expect shell thinks it's getting an end of file, and
hence, truncating the buffer. This type of thing has popped up in the past.
I can try to duplicate it here, but as I haven't seen the error, it may
be more to do with hard-to-reproduce issues between tcl/expect installation.

  I guess as a start, I'd wonder if the error is seen more on systems which
had built Tcl/expect from source, or installed them as rpms.

	- rob -