Re: cygwin testsuite failure

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Eric Blake wrote:

> With cygwin 1.5.25 and all pre-built cygwin packages installed, I get the
> following failure on bison 2.3b+ and m4 1.4.11: (full log attached,
> relevant portion clipped here)

> Another option would be borrowing from autoconf's
> testsuite, which determines which characters are invalid for the current
> file system, then comes up with a maximal string of remaining line noise
> characters to run the test rather than skipping it.

That sounds good to me.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Given that you're already familiar with Autoconf's code, can you bring it 
to Bison?  Maybe Autoconf should make this available so we don't need to 
maintain duplicate code?