Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:20:14 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dejagnu, anyone? Message-ID: <199601232220.AAA11738@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91l.960122200147.21458C-100000@becker1.u.washington.edu> from "John Utz" at Jan 22, 96 08:14:09 pm
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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
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