[PATCH] Bump required minimum DejaGnu version to 1.5.3

[Richard Biener]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:12 PM Segher Boessenkool
<segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 01:22:24PM +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
> > On 11/4/21 12:55, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > >On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 09:32:21AM +0200, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches
> > >wrote:
> > >>On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 2:42 AM Bernhard Reutner-Fischer via
> > >>Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <aldot@gcc.gnu.org>
> > >>>
> > >>>Bump required DejaGnu version to 1.5.3 (or later).
> > >>>Ok for trunk?
> > >>
> > >>OK.
> > >
> > >If we really want to require such a new version of DejaGnu (most
> > >machines I use have 1.5.1 or older), can we include it with GCC please?
> >
> > Do you mean in contrib/download_prerequisites?
>
> I was thinking as actual code, so we can make modifications where we
> need to / want to as well.  But your idea is much less contentious :-)
>
> > Note the version 1.5.1 is 8 years old, what legacy system do you use that
> > has such
> > an old version?
>
> CentOS 7.  Some of those systems cannot run CentOS 8.  And CentOS 8 will
> reach EoL in less than two months, and CentOS Stream is not an option at
> all (and even if it were, it cannot work on many of the machines).
>
> Everything else on CentOS 7 is supported by GCC (it is the oldest
> supported for pretty much everything, but still).  It would be bad for
> DejaGnu to be the limiting factor :-/

So just contribute updated dejagnu packages to CentOS 7 "backports" or
whatever means exists there?  Btw, openSUSE Tumbleweed still has
ppc64 (non-le) support and I bet Debian has that as well.

Richard.

>
> Segher