[Bug-dejagnu] Re: DejaGnu: configure and runtest don't detect TCL version

[Ben Elliston]

Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:

> It doesn't look like the DejaGnu configure script or runtest script detects
> the version of TCL installed. This means that runtest breaks, when it's
> installed on a system that has TCL 7.3 that doesn't support "file pathtype
> ...".
> 
> Perhaps either configure or runtest should detect which version of TCL is
> available. configure could fail, if the minimum version were not available.
> runtest could abort, if the minimum version were not available.

Or DejaGnu could use more portable Tcl constructs :-)
Anyway, thanks for the report.  I'll take a look at this soon.

Cheers, Ben