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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>

<sect1 id="ch-system-dejagnu" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="dejagnu.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>dejagnu</productname>
    <productnumber>&dejagnu-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&dejagnu-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>DejaGNU-&dejagnu-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-dejagnu">
    <primary sortas="a-DejaGNU">DejaGNU</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The <application>DejaGnu</application> package contains a framework for running test
      suites on GNU tools. It is written in <command>expect</command>, which itself
      uses <application>Tcl</application> (Tool Command Language).</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&dejagnu-tmp-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&dejagnu-tmp-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of DejaGNU</title>

    <para>The upstream recommends building DejaGNU in a dedicated build
    directory:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
cd       build</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare DejaGNU for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/dejagnu.html ../doc/dejagnu.texi
makeinfo --plaintext       -o doc/dejagnu.txt  ../doc/dejagnu.texi</userinput></screen>

    <para>Build and install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
install -v -dm755  /usr/share/doc/dejagnu-&dejagnu-version;
install -v -m644   doc/dejagnu.{html,txt} /usr/share/doc/dejagnu-&dejagnu-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 id="contents-dejagnu" role="content">
    <title>Contents of DejaGNU</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>runtest</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="runtest">
        <term><command>runtest</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A wrapper script that locates the proper
          <command>expect</command> shell and then runs DejaGNU</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dejagnu runtest">
            <primary sortas="b-runtest">runtest</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>