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Re: [PATCH][Ada][PING] Use timeout for ACATS when available
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 08:35 +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 08:17 +0200, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> > > > On debian "apt-get install timeout" will install the optionally needed
> > > > software which is otherwise part of TCT (timeout source is about one
> > > > page of C):
> > > > http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html
> > >
> > > If you want to use a new piece of external software in the GCC build or
> > > test process, even conditionally, you should update doc/install.texi to
> > > describe what the software is used for.
> >
> > I believe other people have a local patch to use expect which is already
> > an existing requirement to handle the timeout, why not use that instead?
>
> I'm all for it but I don't know expect at all, do you know who I should
> contact to get the patch? I'll test it on sparc-linux in v9 mode
> to check that it works on multithreaded tests.
Any news on the expect patch?
Thanks in advance,
Laurent