Re: MSYS dejagnu, tcl, and expect

On 7/3/2011 8:52 PM, Cesar Strauss wrote:
> On 3/7/2011 21:31, Edward Diener wrote:
>> I only want to use MSYS to build what I need, but I need to have MSYS
>> use the cygwin version of 'dejagnu' and 'expect' for testing purposes. I
>> could care less about manipulating cygwin.
>
>> Can MSYS use these versions which are loaded into the cygwin tree ?
>
> You can always try. For running the GCC testsuite (also dejagnu based),
> I couldn't make it to work.
>
>> If not I can not use MSYS for testing but I can for building.
>
> Indeed. I build GCC under MSYS, but to run the testsuite I switch to
> Cygwin. For this to work, I use the identity mount and add MinGW to the
> Cygwin PATH.

OK, thanks. It would be nice if there were a MingW version of 'dejagnu' 
and 'expect'. I will try building them from source from within MSYS, and 
see if it is possible.


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