Thanks for the follow-up. This should now be in plain text. Here are the requested details about my specific setup. It is a standard MinGW install (mingw-get-inst-20110211.exe) using the pre-packaged repository catalogs and MSYS.
Shell: GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys) Directory Information: - I originally executed "make check" in the "tests" directory, but after reading your question, I also executed in the project parent directory (binaryio) and it fails in the same manner - 50GB NTFS partition on a local SATA drive A few other details that might be useful: GCC: gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) [Target: mingw32] LD: GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.21 Make: GNU Make 3.81 (i686-pc-msys) MinGW version from _mingw.h: 3.18 Project layout: binaryio - lib - m4 - tests David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: test-binary-io unit test failure under MingW + fix patches From: Bruno Haible <[email protected]> Date: Tue, March 08, 2011 5:41 pm To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Hello, When you write to a mailing list, such as bug-gnulib, please always write plain-text mails, not HTML mails. There must be a switch in your mail program to ensure this. David Collins wrote: > The test-binary-io unit test fails under MinGW running under Windows XP. > > OS: Windows XP > MinGW Version: 20110211 > Gnulib Version: 2011-02-28 > ... > Adding a sleep statement after the fclose(stdout) for 2 seconds resolves the > failure Thanks for the details. Can you please give more details: - What shell were you using? Cygwin bash or MSYS or else? - The directory in which you executed the "make check", on which kind of file system was it? NTFS of a local disk? VFAT on a local disk? Remote mounted via CIFS (SMB)? Or else? I'm asking because obviously, since the test exists for 4 years, we would have noticed if it was failing on _all_ Windows XP systems. So something is likely particular on your system. Bruno -- In memoriam Amar Singh Chamkila <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Singh_Chamkila>
