Bug#472970: expect-tcl8.3 replacement

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 01.01.2010 09:39, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:10 AM,<doko@debian.org>  wrote:
> > Sergei, please could you check that the expect built again tcl8.5 is ok for
> > running the gcc-4.4 and gcc-snapshot testsuites (and other testsuites) on hppa?
>
> Attached are the first results (for gcc-4.4). gcc-4.4-4.4.2.log.gz is
> build log with expect-tcl8.3, gcc-4.4-4.4.2-1.log.gz is a build log
> with expect, gcc-4.4-4.4.2.diff is the difference. I don't know
> exactly which was the problem with expect on hppa, but these logs look
> similar to me.
>
> So, it seems that new glibc with NPTL has fixed expect on hppa.
>
> More test results to come.

ok, I'll start using expect on hppa, first with gcc-4.5, gcc-snapshot, then with 
gcc-4.4. Once these build, I'll disables expect-tcl8.3 in older builds.

  Matthias