Re: GNU make 4.3.91 on Cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Smith wrote:
> > > On Cygwin 2.9.0 (64-bit), compilation works fine, but there are 11
> > > test failures.
> 
> Is it feasible to run these tests, particularly the Windows ones, on
> the GNU make 4.3 release package?

Sure. Find attached the results for GNU make 4.3 on the same Cygwin:
2 failures
  work/features/exec.diff
  work/options/dash-l.diff

> I'd just like to make sure I didn't
> make things significantly worse there.

In 4.3.91 I saw 11 failures:
  work/features/exec.diff
  work/features/jobserver.diff
  work/features/jobserver.diff.1
  work/features/jobserver.diff.11
  work/features/jobserver.diff.2
  work/features/jobserver.diff.6
  work/features/parallelism.diff.12
  work/features/parallelism.diff.4
  work/features/recursion.diff
  work/functions/shell.diff.20
  work/misc/general4.diff.9

> 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.

For the Cygwin port, this wouldn't help.

For the mingw port, it sounds like Eli already has some patches (or at least
he knows which places need to be patched) [1].

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2022-10/msg00168.html

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