Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 05:12 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 4:46 AM:
> > To me this reads as: MinGW and Cygwin's "test -x" are broken.
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> Give an example where cygwin's "test -x" is broken.
RTEMS users have reported it for both MinGW and for Cygwin.

Cf. these are the Cygwin variant:
http://rtems.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-users/2007-March/017888.html
http://rtems.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-users/2007-March/017898.html

And this is the MinGW variant
http://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1228

For Cygwin, the OP reported, switching to NTFS instead of FAT32 would
have remedied his problem.

>   MinGW has problems,
> but in my experience, cygwin does not.

AFAICT from the user reports, the problem is 
"test -x <foreign executable>"
failing.

I can supply you with such foreign executables on PM, if you want me to.

Ralf