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Re: [libgo] Improve Solaris 2/SPARC support
Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
> Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
>
>> I'm especially suffering from hangs on Solaris 8/x86 and Solaris 8 and
>> 9/SPARC (not yet filed or investigated), which hangs the whole build (PR
>> go/48242). If I get around to it, I'll probably replace gotest by a
>> dg-based testsuite.
>
> Argh, no, I am trying to fight against that as long as possible. We
> should be moving away from DejaGNU, not toward it.
Do you have a decent alternative? I've no idea what happened to QMTest
which CodeSourcery tried for the C++ testsuite.
handwritten shell-scripts like gotest which lack all the basic features
of dg (timeouts, a proper record of which tests ran and their status, ...)
certainly don't cut it for me. So far the libgo testsuite lacks all of
this, causing trouble without end (at least for me).
I'm certainly not enamored with Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu, but so far they
do a decent job. Having each library run its testsuite as it pleases
with different output and different ways of dealing with XFAILs,
target-dependent options and stuff, is completely unmaintainable IMO.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University