[LLVMdev] RFC: Dropping DejaGNU

[Eric Christopher]

On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Jim Grosbach wrote:

>
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Should be possible, although I don't know anything about the dejagnu
>>> feature. However, 'lit' has a reasonably complete shell and Tcl  
>>> parser
>>> so it knows what commands are being called, so at least in theory it
>>> should be able to rewrite them.
>>
>> Interesting. Even less of that would be just duplicating the
>> functionality. At any rate everything looks quite nice.
>>
>
> Why not abstracting the "copy to target," "run on target," "get  
> results from target," etc. commands? For the default (hosted) case,  
> they're pretty much trivial. For remote targets, they can be defined  
> in terms of RSH, SSH, or whatever. As I recall, dejagnu does  
> something along those lines.

Pretty much what I was thinking, yes.

Anyhow, not a major issue on my end at the moment :)

-eric