Re: [Help-gsl] make check error with Mingw/MSYS

[Matthew Collette]

Brian,
  Thanks for your reply, it is exactly as you suggested.  I modified the
script so that it does not remove temporary files when it completes and
checked the results manually, they were the same.  With the histogram
test forced to return true, make check runs through without any errors.

I'd be happy to look at revising the gsl-histogram program to run without
temporary files, similar to the other tests if you think this is
worthwhile.

Best wishes,
Matt
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Brian Gough said:
> Matthew Collette writes:
>  > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mdc/gsl-1.5'
>  > test.exp.1.tmp test.obs.1.tmp differ: char 6, line 1
>  > FAIL: test_gsl_histogram.sh
>  >
>  > Any idea where to look for the cause of this error? I've tried
> disabling
>  > shared libraries in configure, but that has not helped.  Is there
> another
>  > build option to try turning on or off?
>
> It's usually safe to ignore that failure.  The problem is the \r\n
> line endings on Windows, which make the test output different. See the
> script test_gsl_histogram.sh for the details.
>
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