Re: dejagnu requires tcl 8.6?
Steve Ellcey <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.dejagnu.general |
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| Message-ID | <1455830635.29579.158.camel@ubuntu-sellcey> |
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 07:27 +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: > Hi Steve > > I made this change because I thought it was safe to do so. I was > wrong. :-) My build of Expect has Tcl 8.6 and 8.6 was released almost > 8 years ago. 8.6 has a few features that would help us clean up some > of the nastier code in DejaGnu (eg, exec has -ignorestderr). > > I'm happy to go back to 8.5 if we really must. > > Cheers, > Ben Using tcl 8.5 would make my life easier, I build GCC on older systems because we want to support GCC on those systems and they have tcl 8.5 as the standard installed tcl (Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6). Steve Ellcey