Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect

Christopher Faylor
2004-06-17T17:30:46Z

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:24:21PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>Hey, I have some good news about Cygwin.
>
>Aaron LaFramboise stepped up and ran the gdb test suite on Cygwin
>with the versions of Tcl+Expect+Dejagnu that already ship with Cygwin.
>That's TCL 8.4, Expect 5.26, Dejagnu 1.4.2.x.
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-testers/2004-q2/msg00159.html
>
>There is one problem with expect on gdb.base/maint.exp.
>The problem is intermittent and happens with some runs and not others.
>Other than that, the normal Cygwin versions of Tcl+Expect+Dejagnu
>work fine for testing gdb.

That's not really surprising since these versions all come from
sourceware.

cgf