Re: make 3.81 MinGW port and testsuite working with MSYS

[J. Grant]

Hi Paul,

>   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.

Ok, I will take a look at that, I got your email now.

> 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).

Ok, I will go through and post details of what are make and what are 
MSYS/shell failures shortly.
Kind regards
JG

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