Re: MinGW/MSYS testsuite results / failures

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:38:07 +0000
> From: "J. Grant" <address@hidden>
> 
> Okay, I completed a test run. Attached is a text file with some annotated
> numbered tests.  Please see below for the details of which test numbers
> I think are make bugs, and which are win32 shell issue.

Thanks for the footwork.

> "sh C:\msys\1.0\bin\echo maketemp=\"make\""
> 
> As you can see there is an extra back-slash, which breaks some things.

This should be fixed, but it isn't a show-stopper, IMHO.

> These are the tests which I think we should try and find solutions for:
> 
> 1,2,3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 28
> 
> extra slash in string (echo bug):
> 
> 8,24,25,26,27

Agreed.  Could you perhaps try to analyze the failures in the first
list of failed tests?

> symlinks (unsupported, perhaps we should support?):
> 16,17,18,19,20

All tests which need symlinks should be disabled for the MSYS/MinGW
build, I think.

> Tests which only fail because of incorrectly created base output file:
> 6, 13,14, 21,22,23

Is this a bug in the Perl scripts?