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bug#36293: Dejagnu Documentation


From: Jacob Bachmeyer
Subject: bug#36293: Dejagnu Documentation
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:06:59 -0500
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I am wondering if the documentation is up to date. The reason I ask this, I was reading the documentation page on 4.4 Adding a new board, and I don’t see a Makefile.am in the directory suggested.

Here is a link to the text I am talking about: https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/Adding-a-new-board.html#Adding-a-new-board

No, the documentation is out-of-date. Your issue is related to DejaGnu's move to a flat Automake layout with a single Makefile.am at top-level. The section you mention also gives file names from the old Cygnus tree layout, but that detail is easily overlooked.

Instead of adding to the boards_DATA list in baseboards/Makefile.am, you will need to add your baseboard file to the baseboard_DATA list in the top-level Makefile.am. For testing, you can also simply install your file with the other baseboard files in $pkgdatadir/baseboards and DejaGnu will find it -- you only need to edit Makefile.am to package your baseboard file with DejaGnu, such as submitting your board file upstream for inclusion in a future DejaGnu release.

Revising this part of the manual is on my local TODO list and is currently delayed while I untangle the mess that DejaGnu board configurations have become over the years.

I have the dejagnu 1.6 installed.
The latest release is 1.6.1, which fixes various minor bugs in 1.6, but is probably no different with respect to this issue.


-- Jacob





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