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Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 21:24:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support
- References: <20070428195500.GA6695@caradoc.them.org> <200704282334.l3SNYLX3011555@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <20070429050418.GE29271@adacore.com>
Ulrich,
> > > This all seems reasonable to me. I believe that Joel has access to an
> > > OSF system at AdaCore; maybe he can test the patch for you?
> >
> > Joel, would that be possible?
>
> Absolutely! I'm away at the moment, but I'll be back on Tuesday,
> so I'll schedule a round of testing first thing when I get back.
Sorry, Ulrich, I have been unable to make expect work on any of
the Tru64 machines that we have. On one machine, it looks like
we're exhausting within a few tests the pool of pseudo-ttys. And
on the other machine, I have what looks like an echo issue that
completely confuses the testsuite. I tried the obvious tricks
of re-installing newer versions of tcl and expect, but to no avail.
Something is weird, because I *thought* I had it working on one
of the machines before...
Eventually, we will end up testing this patch somewhat, because we
maintain internally a tree that contains our latest changes merged
to a recent snapshot of the FSF head, and we test it nightly against
our in-house testsuite (which does not use expect/dejagnu). We will
bitterly complain and start pointing fingers if something broke :-P.
--
Joel