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Re: dejagnu version update?
- From: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at foss dot arm dot com>, Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep dot dot dot nop at gmail dot com>, gcc-patches List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:39:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: dejagnu version update?
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On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 10:36 -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 09/16/2015 10:25 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 16/09/15 17:14, Mike Stump wrote:
> >> On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> The software presently works with 1.4.4 and there arenât any
> >>>> changes that require anything newer.
> >>>
> >>> SLES 12 has 1.4.4.
> >>
> >> Would be nice to cover them as well, but their update schedule, 3-4
> >> years, means that their next update is 2018. They didnât update to
> >> a 3 year old stable release of dejagnu for their last OS, meaning
> >> they are on a > 7 year update cycle. I love embedded and really
> >> long term support cycles (20 years), but, donât think we should
> >> cater to the 20 year cycle just yet. :-) Since 7 is substantially
> >> longer than 2, I donât think we should worry about it. If they had
> >> updated at the time, they would have had 3 years of engineering and
> >> testing before the release and _had_ 1.5.
> >>
> >
> > Sorry about the obvious (possibly dumb) question.
> >
> > Can't we just import a copy of dejagnu each year and install it as
> > part of the source tree ? I can't imagine installing dejagnu is
> > adding a huge amount of time to build and regression test time ?
> > Advantage is that everyone is guaranteed to be on the same version. I
> > fully expect resistance due to specific issues with specific versions
> > of tcl and expect, but if folks aren't aware of this .....
> That should work -- certainly that's the way we used to do things at
> Cygnus. Some of that code may have bitrotted as single tree builds have
> fallen out-of-favor through the years.
>
> As to whether or not its a good idea. I'm torn -- I don't like copying
> code from other repos because of the long term maintenance concerns.
>
> I'd rather just move to 1.5 and get on with things.
AIUI, we specifically need >= 1.5.3 (or a version with a backport) to
get support for multiple load_lib paths mentioned by Bernhard, which is
what motivated this thread (on gcc-patches, before it spread to the gcc
list):
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-09/msg01196.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-09/msg00983.html
> If some systems
> don't have a new enough version, I'm comfortable telling developers on
> those platforms that they need to update. It's not like every *user*
> needs dejagnu, it's just for the testing side of things.
>
>
> jeff