On 9/8/24 6:15 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
So the logs were not sitting on a shared server, then. Perhaps a notion
of credit-where-credit-is-due to the testers?
In those days we were still using UUCP over Telebit Trailblazer
modems. :-) The shared server came by years later when we built the big
build farm for cross testing. At one point we were testing 144
host/target variations of GCC in a fully automated fashion for every
release. Pre-github, no Gerrit or Jenkins, the dinosaur days of CI...
I am still inclined to keep it, but perhaps we should check if the
working directory or source tree is a Git checkout, and if so, use the
Some people would be running DejaGnu from an installed package, so
git wouldn't work. If LOGNAME doesn't exist, I'd just set it to "unknown".
Also, do you remember what system used `who am i` instead of `whoami`
and why DejaGnu extracts the second /[ !]/-delimited field from that
command's output?
Back then DejaGnu had to run a wide variety of Unixes. Pure System V,
BSD variants, SunOs/Solaris, Unixware, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, NextOS, MSDOS,
plus the crazy Canadian cross to build a cross compiler that ran on
Windows. I can't remember which system used "who am I", but there was a
huge amount of weird obscure differences between systems we just had to
deal with. That's one of the things that made the GNU toolchain so
popular, it ran on almost anything, so your code became truly portable.
That was a big deal in the late 80s into the early 90s due to vendor
lock-in with proprietary compilers.
- rob -
