On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 23:37 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 03:01 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > > On Cygwin 2.9.0 (64-bit), compilation works fine, but there are 11 > > test failures. > > I don't test or support cygwin myself so it's not surprising. The > cygwin team apparently has a set of patches that they maintain for > GNU make but I'm not sure what they are. > > Getting a KGO-based test suite like GNU make's, to work on systems > like Windows w/ Cygwin etc., is a tall order.
Is it feasible to run these tests, particularly the Windows ones, on the GNU make 4.3 release package? I'd just like to make sure I didn't make things significantly worse there. There was some puttering with backslashes recently that _shouldn't_ have made any difference but... I suppose at some point I'll have to figure out how to work with Cygwin. I don't have access to a Windows system where I'm free to install whatever I want unfortunately. About all I can easily test is compiling with MSVC using the build_w32.bat script. I could remove the MinGW shutils from my PATH and get the suite working without them but I don't want to undertake that for this release.
