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<sect1 id="ch-tools-dejagnu" xreflabel="DejaGnu">
<title>DejaGnu-&dejagnu-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-tools-dejagnu"><primary sortas="a-DejaGnu">DejaGnu</primary></indexterm>

<para>The DejaGnu package contains a framework for testing other programs.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
&diskspace; 6.1 MB</screen>

<para>For its installation Dejagnu depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>



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<title>Installation of DejaGnu</title>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 id="contents-dejagnu"><title>Contents of DejaGnu</title>

<para><emphasis>Installed program</emphasis>: runtest</para>

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<sect2><title>Short description</title>

<indexterm zone="ch-tools-dejagnu runtest"><primary sortas="b-runtest">runtest</primary></indexterm>
<para id="runtest"><command>runtest</command> is the wrapper script that finds the proper
expect shell and then runs DejaGnu.</para>

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