From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 23 14:24:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA23347 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101136.iafrica.com [196.7.101.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA23324 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:23:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA11738; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:20:15 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601232220.AAA11738@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: dejagnu, anyone? To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:20:14 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Utz" at Jan 22, 96 08:14:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, John Utz wrote: > . . . . . > Now i need to *test* the latest octave snapshot and it seems that > we are no longer among the blessed wrt DejaGNU :-( > > It seems to me that this was not always so, but this is the first > time i have ever gotten really serious about doing something like this, > so i really wouldn't know. > > Has anybody built it lately? The current version is 1.2. I looked > in packages and ports for 2.05 and 2.1 No soap. I've been using DejaGnu 1.2 (ftp'ed from prep.ai.mit.edu). As far as I know, it hasn't been updated since April 1994. By the end of 1994, a number of bugs had been reported, but no patches were issued that I'm aware of. > > If anybody has a copy i would like to hear how they built it. The > configure fails to recognize a FreeBSD-2.0.5 Release box, or even if i > try and force it to try i386-unknown-freebsd. ./configure 386bsd > > The odd thing is that configure.guess recognizes it, but that may > be a file that comes with configure already knowing this piece of info. Config.guess uses uname(1) to produce this. Sort of the ELIZA approach to configuration management. :-( But you have to stick with a platform it actually knows. -- Robert Nordier