Re: make 3.81 MinGW port and testsuite working with MSYS

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "J. Grant" <address@hidden> writes:

  >> I didn't add this patch anyway; there's no reason to require an
  >> extra application like that when Perl can quite trivially make this
  >> change itself.

  jg> I wonder if you locally implemented this CR stripping
  jg> functionality? (I could not see it in CVS version of
  jg> test_driver.pl)

I haven't committed anything, but I did send a replacement function
to this set of recipients yesterday that tries to make this change.

Alessandro sent an alternative later that I haven't looked at yet.

  jg> I will work through these and submit fixes over the coming
  jg> days/weeks.  What are your thoughts regarding waiting for further
  jg> MinGW/MSVC patches to be merged in before the 3.81 release?

I'd really prefer to avoid delaying the release.  Please, concentrate on
making sure that the port behaves correctly, it will build properly,
etc.  If the only issue is that some of the regression tests don't run
properly due to system differences I probably wouldn't want to hold the
release just for that, as long as we understand what breaks and more or
less why (enough to know it's a test suite problem rather than a problem
with make itself).

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