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Changes since 1.5.3:
-1. The --status command line option is now the default. This means
+1. A large number of very old config and baseboard files have been
+ removed. If you need to resurrect these, you can get them from
+ version 1.5.3. If you can show that a board is still in use, it
+ can be put back in the distribution.
+2. The --status command line option is now the default. This means
that any error in the testsuite Tcl scripts will cause runtest to
abort with exit status code 2.
-2. runtest now exits with exit code 0 if the testsuite "passed", 1 if
+3. runtest now exits with exit code 0 if the testsuite "passed", 1 if
something unexpected happened (eg, FAIL, XPASS or UNRESOLVED), and
2 if an exception is raised by the Tcl interpreter.
-3. runtest now exits with the standard exit codes of programs that are
+4. runtest now exits with the standard exit codes of programs that are
terminated by the SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGQUIT signals.
-4. The user-visible utility procedures `absolute', `psource' and
+5. The user-visible utility procedures `absolute', `psource' and
`slay' have been removed. If a testsuite uses any of these
procedures, a copy of the procedure should be made and placed in
the lib directory of the testsuite.
-5. Support was added for testing the D compiler.
-6. ~/.dejagnurc is now loaded last, not first. This allows the user to
+6. Support was added for testing the D compiler.
+7. ~/.dejagnurc is now loaded last, not first. This allows the user to
have the ability to override anything in their environment (even
the site.exp file specified by $DEJAGNU).