dejagnu version update?

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 20:11:00 GMT 2015


On 09/15/2015 01:21 PM, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 10:39 -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Maybe GCC-6 can bump the required
>>>> dejagnu version to allow for getting rid of all these superfluous
>>>> load_gcc_lib? *blink* :)
>>> I'd support that as a direction.
>>>
>>> Certainly dropping the 2001 version from our website in favor of 1.5
>> (which is what I'm using anyway) would be a step forward.
>>
>> So, even ubuntu LTS is 1.5 now.  No harm in upgrading the website to
>> 1.5.  I don’t know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 at
>> this point.  I’m not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update
>> every 2-4 years isn’t unreasonable.
>
> FWIW, I believe RHEL 6 is at dejagnu-1.4.4   I don't know whether or not
> that's an issue here.
I'd consider it a non-issue.  Folks that want to do GCC development on 
RHEL 6 are probably few and far between and can probably update dejagnu 
if need be ;-)

If ubuntu, fedora, debian current releases were stuck at 1.4, then it'd 
be a bigger issue.

jeff



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