Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-06-15T22:56:53Z

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:29:26PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Jun 15, 2004, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> >> And on the other side, I have repeatedly been burnt by systems with
> >> tcl/expect headers installed globally which are incompatible with the
> >> stuff in /cvs/src. I'd be much happier if tcl/tk/expect were all
> >> three removed from src.
> >
> > My point is that you don't have to check them out if you don't want
> > to. If it's just there for those who need it, it can't possibly
> > hurt.
>
> It is surprisingly difficult to check out gdb without getting tcl/tk
> as well. This is probably nothing to do with Ben, though.

That's got nothing to do with getting rid of the in-tree
expect/dejagnu; that has to do with the (long overdue) project to move
Insight out of the GDB directory. If it were separate, the top-level
rules could be less insistent about ./gdb/ requiring ./tcl/.

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Daniel Jacobowitz