Re: Problems running runtest... (also tcl8.4, expect and dejagnu)

["Trevor Forbes" <t4bs at hotmail dot com>]

Give the following a try:

export DEJAGNULIBS=f:/Cygwin/usr/share/dejagnu
(example path only)

DEJAGNULIBS should point to the directory containing runtest

Trevor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Prince" <tprince@computer.org>
To: "Christian Jönsson" <c.christian.joensson@telia.com>;
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, 16 July 2000 11:48
Subject: Re: Problems running runtest... (also tcl8.4, expect and dejagnu)


> The latest directory structure has broken expect's ability to find the
> dejagnu directory.  Apparently, this needs to be fixed by moving
> /usr/share/dejagnu to /share/dejagnu, or (possibly) by moving
> /bin/expect to /usr/bin/expect.  DJD has answered already that he thinks
> it is a path order problem IIUC.
>
> IMHO the greatest defects of expect/dejagnu as currently ported to
> cygwin are the tendency to allow g++ to hang and the tendency of expect
> to make access violations. The g77 suites always run twice; Mumit Khan
> used to have the same behavior using the standard NT port (non-cygwin).
> I suppose that someone will tell me I could grab the cygwin sources,
> figure out which testsuite cases are provoking expect bugs, and run them
> under gdb.  Maybe these sources may be diff'd against the corresponding
> version from scriptics in order to get an idea how to port the current
> versions.
>
> Tim Prince
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Jönsson" <c.christian.joensson@telia.com>
> To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 1:48 AM
> Subject: Problems running runtest... (also tcl8.4, expect and dejagnu)
>
>
> hmm, this is not good. when trying to run the egcs testsuite using
> dejagnu,
> i get the following error:
>
> BASH.EXE-2.04$ runtest --tool g77
> couldn't read file "/usr/share/dejagnu/runtest.exp": no such file or
> directory
> BASH.EXE-2.04$
>
> as far as i can tell, there *is* a file /usr/share/dejagnu/runtest.exp
> so there has to be some other problem lurking here...
>
> Actually, I'd like to build tcl8.4.x (cvs sources?) adn then expect (cvs
> sources
> at dev.scriptics.com also) and then get dejagnu working perhaps...
>
> Anyone has pointers on how to build tcl and expect under cygwin-1.1.2?
>
> TIA,
>
> /ChJ
>
>
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