>- it requires tcl, expect, and dejagnu
>
>- it is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very big
>
>- you can get it separately from egcs right from ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/

OK, fair cop. So make it a package, along with dejagnus.

my point is we _should_ be doing the tests with our own toolchains,
and (AFAIK) we're not -- i'm not, anyway -- because the machinery
simply isnt there.