[updating subject for greater visibility] On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 08:51 -0600, Martin Sebor wrote: > On 3/16/21 3:08 AM, Martin Liška wrote: > > On 3/15/21 9:57 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: > > > Any plans to integrate it into the testsuite? (That way we presu > > > mably > > > wouldn't need to remember to run it by hand.) > > > > Likely not, I'm not so big friend with DejaGNU. > > Are you willing to help me with that? > > I'm not a fan either but that's what we've got. And sure, I'll help > if/when I can. I think it should be "straightforward" to rewrite > the script in Expect (as much as anything is straightforward in > Expect). Or, it could stay as is and be invoked from some .exp > file in testsuite. Although is Python a required prerequisite > for running the testsuite? If not, it might be better to either > rewrite the script in something that is (e.g., AWK) or in Expect.
I find it painful writing non-trivial logic in Tcl. We already have run-gcov-pytest in gcov.exp which calls out to a python3 script, checking if python3 is supported, and bailing with UNSUPPORTED otherwise. FWIW I think it's reasonable to have something similar for this case. Dave
