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Re: [RFC/commmit] [testsuite/Ada] stop using project files when building test programs
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:21:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC/commmit] [testsuite/Ada] stop using project files when building test programs
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On 12/22/2015 03:33 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Below is a fairly straightforward change, except maybe for the use
> of try / finally, which requires TCL version 8.6, released Dec 2012.
> I think it's a reasonable requirement; any objection?
I'm still on F20, and that shipped with 8.5 too. I'll have to upgrade
eventually, so this may the trigger.
Note that requiring newer expect/tcl may mean that fewer people will do
the occasional gcc compile farm testing on some older hosts. From a quick
look at some machines there, I see:
gcc20 (debian wheezy)'s expect links with 8.5.
gcc111 (AIX 7.1)'s expect links with 8.4.
gcc110 (F18 POWER7/ppc64)'s expect links with 8.5.
How hard would it be to avoid try/finally? Wouldn't you just have to
use catch instead?
Are there other nice 8.6 features that it'd be really nice to
make use of too?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves