On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Sep 3, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Roelofs <jonat...@codesourcery.com> > wrote: >> Moral of the story is: these tests fail in our environment, but only because >> the regexes do not expect the presence of the ansi color codes, and we can't >> trick the runtime into not emitting them. > > When the user says, I don’t want color; is color emitted? If so, that’s a > bug, and needs to be fixed. If the user can, then, dejagnu can. When it > says, don’t use color, that should be respected; just as if the user had said > it. Anyway, a | decolor more a la prune should be able to remove color, even > if there were no other way.
The issue is dejagnu cannot (at least in the current implementation of the remotes), cannot set an env that stays alive before invoking the program (though maybe it could use the env program to do the invoking). > > I’m not a fan of the changes as is.
