On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 10:39 -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Maybe GCC-6 can bump the required > >> dejagnu version to allow for getting rid of all these superfluous > >> load_gcc_lib? *blink* :) > > I'd support that as a direction. > > > > Certainly dropping the 2001 version from our website in favor of 1.5 > (which is what I'm using anyway) would be a step forward. > > So, even ubuntu LTS is 1.5 now. No harm in upgrading the website to > 1.5. I don’t know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 at > this point. I’m not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update > every 2-4 years isn’t unreasonable.
FWIW, I believe RHEL 6 is at dejagnu-1.4.4 I don't know whether or not that's an issue here. > So, let’s do it this way… Any serious and compelling reason to not > update to 1.5? If none, let’s update to 1.5 in another week or two, > if no serious and compelling reasons not to. > > My general plan is, slow cycle updates on dejagnu, maybe every 2 > years. LTS style releases should have the version in it before the > requirement is updated. I take this approach as I think this should > be the maximal change rate of things like make, gcc, g++, ld, if > possible.
