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  70 >This release has a number of substantial changes over version
  71     1.3. The most visible change is that the version of Expect and Tcl
  72     included in the release are up-to-date with the current stable net
  73     releases. The biggest change is years of modifications to the
  74     target configuration system, used for cross testing. While this
  75     greatly improved cross testing, is has made that subsystem very
  76     complicated. The goal is to have this entirely rewritten using
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  79 >iTcl</SPAN
  80 > by the next release. Other changes
  81     are:</P
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  87 >More builtin support for building target binaries
  88         with the correct linker flags. Currently this only works with
  89         <SPAN
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  91 >GCC</SPAN
  92 > as the cross compiler,
  93         preferably with a target supported by
  94         <A
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  96 ><I
  97 >Libgloss</I
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  99 >.</P
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 102 ><P
 103 >Lots of little bug fixes from years of heavy
 104         use at Cygnus Solutions.</P
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 107 ><P
 108 >DejaGnu now uses
 109       <SPAN
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 111 >Automake</SPAN
 112 > for Makefile
 113       configuration.</P
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 117 >Updated documentation, now in SGML
 118         (using the <A
 119 HREF="http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html"
 120 TARGET="_top"
 121 >free
 122         GNU DocBook tools</A
 123 >) format.</P
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 127 >NT support. There is beta level support for NT
 128       that is still a work in progress. This requires the <A
 129 HREF="http://sources.redhat.com"
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 131 >Cygwin</A
 132 > POSIX system
 133       for NT.</P
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 145 >To use DejaGnu on NT, you need to first install the
 146         <A
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 150 >
 151         release. This works as of the B20.1 release. Cygwin is a POSIX
 152         system for NT. This covers both utility programs, and a libray
 153         that adds POSIX system calls to NT. Among them is pseudo tty
 154         support for NT that emulates the POSIX pty standard. The
 155         latest Cygwin is always available from <A
 156 HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin"
 157 TARGET="_top"
 158 >this location</A
 159 >. This
 160         works well enough to run <I
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 162 >"make check"</I
 163 > of
 164         the GNU development tree on NT after a native build. But the
 165         nature of pty's on NT is still evolving. Your mileage may
 166         vary...</P
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