[PATCH] Fit test results onto single lines

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:36:50AM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > > Yup, nice catch.  Your patch looks obviously correct to me, if
>  > > [string map is in the minimum tcl/expect required.
>  > 
>  > It is a documented feature of Tcl 8.2, but not of 8.0, see
>  > respectively
>  > 
>  >   http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.2.3/TclCmd/string.htm
>  >   http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.0/TclCmd/string.htm
>  > 
>  > I do not know what the minimum required version of Tcl is.
>  > zw
> 
> There are already several tests which need newer versions of
> tcl/expect due to use of newer features.  When I say newer, I mean
> something more recent than the combined dejagnu/tcl/expect tarball in
> the gcc infrastructure directory.  Using it yields spurious testsuite
> failures.
> 
> Because of that, I've been using tcl8.4.4 and expect-5.39 for months
> now (since July), and I've used dejagnu-1.4.3 even longer.  (I don't
> know if they are all still the most current versions.)
> 
> IMHO we should just update our docs to recommend the latest tcl &
> expect and dejagnu, and say those are the required versions.  Then
> delete the old dejagnu tarball.

... and upgrade the versions in the repository.  This has desperately
needed doing for a while now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer