From: TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au (Trevor Yann)
Subject: DejaGnu?
9 Aug 1998 03:59:35 -0700
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I was thinking that a test suite for the cygwin dll would be a good thing.
The only specific test that I have seen is test.c in the winsup directory,
and it only performs very rudimentary tests of the fork code. 

I would like to have tests using "straight" win32 code either mingw or msc.
These could test the win32 environment provided by the various flavours of
win 95/98/nt. These would help confirm whether work arounds are required in
the cygwin dll. Consider the number of the versions of win 95 that are
around - original, service pack 1, oem 2.1 and oem 2.5 (did I miss one?),
each having a different set of bugs with the win32 api implementation.
Likewise NT has a number of different versions that will each differ in
their implementation of the win32 api.

I am willing to start this sort of test suite for the win32 api, but it
should be done within a testing framework. DejaGnu comes to mind, but it
doesn't currently run under the cygwin environment.

I have hacks to tcl to allow shell scripts to be run, but the required
changes for expect are beyond me. The expect code seems to assume a unix
environment, but the tcl that is used is very "windozsy".

Does anyone have a version of dejagnu that works under the cygwin
environment? A working dejagnu is necessary for me to start any test suite.