Re: Latest CVS, Increased win32 test failures since beta -> 33

[Paul D. Smith]

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

  jg> I am wondering why 12 additional tests are failing on MSVC build
  jg> now.  The code I tested previously (beta2 with MinGW fixes) only
  jg> had 20 failures on MSVC build, and 24 failures on MinGW build if
  jg> my records are correct.  This has leaped to 33 (MSVC) and 36
  jg> (MinGW) in my tests.

  jg> misc/general3 ........................................... FAILED (9/10 
passed)

This failure is almost certainly due to the change in backslash-newline
handling, since misc/general3 is where I added all my testing.

I'm sort of surprised you only got one failure here; there are a lot of
different backslash-newline tests.

  jg> Tests which only fail because of incorrectly created base output file:

  jg> features/recursion
  jg> options/dash-I.mk
  jg> targets/DEFAULT
  jg> variables/CURDIR
  jg> variables/MAKE

In what way were they incorrectly created?

  jg> These are the tests which I think we should try and find solutions for:

  jg> work/features/export.mk UNEXPORT_ALL=1
  jg> features/export.mk EXPORT_ALL=1 UNEXPORT_ALL=1
  jg> features/patspecific_vars.mk
  jg> functions/abspath
  jg> functions/value
  jg> functions/wildcard.mk print2
  jg> functions/wildcard.mk clean
  jg> variables/special

Don't know about these.

  jg> options/dash-l.mk -l 0.0001 -j 4

I don't think Windows supports the -l option so I doubt that this test
should even be invoked.


I've make some changes (checked in just tonight) that tries to handle
environment variables more safely than previous versions, just in case
some variables are leaking from test to test (I don't know if Windows
allows that to happen).

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