Re: GNU poke 2.0.91 pre-released in alpha.gnu.org

[Bruno Haible]

Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> > ERROR: bad switch "-119": must be -all, -about, -indices, -inline, 
> > -expanded, -line, -linestop, -lineanchor, -nocase, -start, or --
> >     while executing
> > "regexp $texttmp ${output}"
> 
> That is most certainly due to a too old and buggy version of dejagnu in
> that machine.
> 
> This is what git dejagnu uses instead (lib/dg.exp):
> 
>   if { ![regexp -- $texttmp $output] } {
> 
> Note the --.

Bingo! Exactly.

> Maybe you want to patch the dg.exp in your machine, to avoid this
> happening while running dejagnu-based testsuites in the future.

I've switched to a newer 'expect' installation on the same machine. Now all
tests pass:

                === poke Summary ===

# of expected passes            6308
# of unsupported tests          7