Re: dejagnu version update?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 07:45, Christophe Lyon wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 19:44, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 18:19, Mike Stump via Gcc <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've changed the subject to match the 2015, 2017 and 2018 email threads.
> > >
> > > On May 13, 2020, at 3:26 AM, Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Comparing DejaGnu/GCC testsuite '*.sum' files between two systems ("old"
> > > > vs. "new") that ought to return identical results, I found that they
> > > > didn't:
> > >
> > > > I have not found any evidence in DejaGnu master branch that this not
> > > > working would've been a "recent" DejaGnu regression (and then fixed for
> > > > DejaGnu 1.6) -- so do we have to assume that this never worked as
> > > > intended back then?
> > >
> > > Likely not.
> > >
> > > > Per our "Prerequisites for GCC" installation documentation, we currently
> > > > require DejaGnu 1.4.4.  Advancing that to 1.6 is probably out of
> > > > question, given that it has "just" been released (four years ago).
> > >
> > > :-)  A user that wants full coverage should use 1.6, apparently.
> >
> > As documented at
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/test.html#test.run.permutations
> > anything older than 1.5.3 causes problems for libstdc++ (and probably
> > the rest of GCC) because the options in --target_board get placed
> > after the options in dg-options. If the test depends on the options in
> > dg-options to work properly it might fail. For example, a test that
> > has { dg-options "-O2" } and fails without optimisation would FAIL if
> > you use --target_board=unix/-O0 with dejagnu 1.5.
> >
> I think that was commit:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=dejagnu.git;a=commitdiff;h=5256bd82343000c76bc0e48139003f90b6184347
> which for sure was a major change (though I don't see it documented in
> dejagnu/NEWS file)


Yes, that's the one.