Migrate to Autotest for testing framework?

[Georg Bauhaus]

Sam Lauber wrote:
> (sorry for the empty message, I accidently hit `send')
> 
> I think GCC should use GNU Autotest (part of Autoconf) as 
> the testing framework instead of DejaGNU.  It would (1) 
> allow GCC to be tested on the platforms DejaGNU does not 
> support, and (2) have the advantage of the shell. 

It has been a royal pain to compile auto*ed software
on OSs without a Unix emulation on top (process model,
pipes, job control, tool set including full bash). I don't think
that importing even more of the complexities of the O(terrible(n))
Autoconf dependence set will help porting?

Georg