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

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> 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

Very nice.  Thank you :)