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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:31:49 JST Adrian Cochrane

   DejaGNU is an extended standard library for the barebones TCL-based Expect test-runner. As such it'll inevitably be a toolbox, best summarized in list form:

   DejaGNU provides TCL functions for:
   * Linking against LibGloss
   * Connecting to other computers' filesystems, most of DejaGNU are backends for this.
   * Dispatch to "load"ers & "compile"rs.
   * Directory walks, apart from certain dev or version-control dirs.
   * Retrieve "DMUCS" hostnames.
   * Globals accessors.
   * Relative filepaths.
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   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:56:40 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     * Push & pop various globals.
     * Wraps `size` to report the filesize of different executable-file sections.
     * Run the C compiler.
     * Test standard error messages.
     * Link newlib.
     * Reimplement `which`.
     * Execute commands remotely.
     * Yet more global accessors.
     * Pop certain globals to a file.
     * Link LibIO.
     * Reimplementation of `grep`.
     * Configure/normalize the test command to run.
     * Link G++.
     * Prune a list.
     * Configure expected error messages.
     * Open an XML file to log results to.
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   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:04:52 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     * Remove extraneous warnings from output.
     * Checks whether a test was configured to be skipped.
     * Configure an expected warning.
     * Close the XML logfile.
     * Link LibStdC++.
     * Diff results.
     * Access envvars.
     (More tomorrow)

     Remote filesystem backends:
     * rlogin basic client
     * SSH basic client
     * Telnet basic client
     * tip basic client
     * FTP basic client
     * rsh basic client
     * Local operations (bundled within the dispatcher)

     3/3 For now...