5 1. The internal proc 'is_remote' has been renamed to 'isremote' for
6 consistency with the other similar procs (eg, istarget). Testsuites
7 should use this proc. The 'is_remote' proc is deprecated.
8 2. runtest now accepts --local_init and --global_init options to override
9 the default of reading "site.exp". See the manual for details.
10 3. A utility procedure relative_filename has been added. This procedure
11 computes a relative file name to a given destination from a given base.
12 4. The utility procedure 'grep' now accepts a '-n' option that
13 includes line numbers in the output, consistent with GNU grep.
14 5. A new multiplex procedure "testsuite" is added for commands
15 retrieving or providing information about the current testsuite.
16 6. A command "testsuite file" is added to replace the use of the
17 "*dir" variables in test scripts.
18 7. A shell command "dejagnu" is added as a place to hang various
19 auxiliary commands not directly involved with running tests. The
20 "runtest" command will remain for that purpose for the forseeable
22 8. The first auxiliary command is added: "report card". The "dejagnu
23 report card" command reads DejaGnu summary files and produces a
24 compact tabular summary across multiple tools.
28 1. runtest will abort if $DEJAGNU is defined but the file is not
33 Minor bug fixes, no major changes.
37 1. Proper support for target communication via SSH has been added.
38 2. A large number of very old config and baseboard files have been
39 removed. If you need to resurrect these, you can get them from
40 version 1.5.3. If you can show that a board is still in use, it
41 can be put back in the distribution.
42 3. The --status command line option is now the default. This means
43 that any error in the testsuite Tcl scripts will cause runtest to
44 abort with exit status code 2. The --status option has been
45 removed from the documentation, but will continue to be accepted
46 for backward compatibility.
47 4. runtest now exits with exit code 0 if the testsuite "passed", 1 if
48 something unexpected happened (eg, FAIL, XPASS or UNRESOLVED), and
49 2 if an exception is raised by the Tcl interpreter.
50 5. runtest now exits with the standard exit codes of programs that are
51 terminated by the SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGQUIT signals.
52 6. The user-visible utility procedures `absolute', `psource' and
53 `slay' have been removed. If a testsuite uses any of these
54 procedures, a copy of the procedure should be made and placed in
55 the lib directory of the testsuite.
56 7. Support was added for testing the D compiler.
57 8. ~/.dejagnurc is now loaded last, not first. This allows the user to
58 have the ability to override anything in their environment (even
59 the site.exp file specified by $DEJAGNU).
60 9. The user-visible utility procedure `unsetenv' is deprecated and
61 will be removed in the next release. If a testsuite uses any of
62 these procedures, a copy of the procedure should be made and placed
63 in the lib directory of the testsuite.
67 1. The runtest.1 man page has been brought up to date.
68 2. The Docbook/SGML documentation files were removed in favour of the
69 Docbook/XML documentation. The Texinfo source for the Info pages is
70 now automatically generated from the Docbook source.
71 3. The Makefile structure has been substantially simplified. There
72 is now a single top-level Makefile.am. The use of recursive make
74 4. lib/mondfe.exp and lib/xsh.exp have been removed. Users requiring
75 these communication modes can still use the DejaGnu 1.4 branch or
76 can contact dejagnu@gnu.org to discuss reinstating these files.
77 5. The configure script now ensures that Expect is installed and that
78 it is linked against Tcl 8.3 or greater.
79 6. The runtest program now gracefully handles the possibility of the
80 expect binary vanishing after DejaGnu has been installed (for
81 example, by the user altering their PATH).
82 7. The user-visible utility procedures `absolute', `prune', `psource'
83 and `slay' are deprecated and will be removed in the next release.
84 If a testsuite uses any of these procedures, a copy of the
85 procedure should be made and placed in the lib directory of the
90 1. New XML output option, so test results can be loaded into a database.
91 2. Support for the KFAIL/KPASS (known failures).
92 3. New "Hello World" example.
93 4. New tutorial chapter.
94 5. Test cases build with either GCC 2.x or 3.x.
95 6. BlueGnu has been removed from the contrib directory.
96 7. The contrib/test* scipts were bitrotten and have been removed. If
97 you still want copies of these, they can be found in the previous
99 8. i960glue.c has been removed.
103 1. Various patches for bugs reported from net users.
104 2. Test case builds with either libstdc++-v3 (as used by GCC 3.0.x) or
105 the older v2 (as used by GCC 2.95.x).
109 1. There is new support for a simple unit testing API, that is also
110 useful for embedded testing.
114 1. DejaGnu is now back under active maintainance. The initial work has
115 been rewriting the manual to bring it up to date, and switching to
117 2. NT support has also been added.
118 3. DejaGnu now uses Automake.
122 1. Works with (included in release) Tcl 7.3 and Expect 5.6.
123 2. Much better error trapping and handling, including the execution of
125 3. Re-worked configuration subsystem.
126 4. Default handling for testing unknown targets.
127 5. New testsuite for expect and runtest.
128 6. More debugging procedures.
132 1. DejaGnu now conforms to POSIX 1003.3, a standard for testing frameworks.
133 2. A Tcl debugger written by Don Libes has been added.
134 3. Lots of bug fixes.
138 1. DejaGnu now installs itself like other utilities.
139 2. 700 G++ tests are included.
140 3. The bugs in the GCC tests have been fixed.
141 4. Testsuites are released separately.
142 5. Testsuite sources now reside with the within each tool's source tree.