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Provided as a separate subport, as updating devel/dejagnu is probably not wise at this stage.
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This is a recent snapshot of dejagnu.
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There have been no formal releases of dejagnu in a long time,
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and gcc does not need a recent dejagnu snapshot to run its testsuite.
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DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs. Its purpose is to
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provide a single front end for all tests. Beyond this, DejaGnu offers
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several advantages for testing:
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- The flexibility and consistency of the DejaGnu framework
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make it easy to write tests for any program.
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- DejaGnu provides a layer of abstraction which makes all
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tests (if correctly written) portable to any host or target
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where a program must be tested. For instance, a test for
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GDB can run (from any Unix based host) on any target
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architecture supported by DejaGnu. Currently DejaGnu runs
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tests on several single board computers, whose operating
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software ranges from just a boot monitor to a full-fledged,
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Unix-like realtime OS.
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- DejaGnu is written in expect, which in turn uses Tcl
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(Tool command language). The framework comprises two parts:
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the testing framework and the testsuites themselves. Tests
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are usually written in expect using Tcl.
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