Re: [coreutils] testsuite worthless on cygwin

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> Unfortunately, 'make check' is failing almost all of the tests on
> cygwin.  Why?  Because init.sh uses find_exe_basenames_ to see whether
> all .exe files are safe to install a shim function around, but [.exe
> fails the test.  Meanwhile, create_exe_shims_ returns 1 rather than 0
> (or 77) when skipping a directory, which makes path_prepend_ fail almost
> every single test with the message 'something failed (above):
> /path/to/coreutils/src)'.
>
> I'm thinking that init.sh should skip problematic files (we're less
> likely to be testing [ directly to have to worry about conflicts with

Skipping sounds best to me.

> [.exe) rather than giving up on the entire directory.  Any other
> opinions, or should I go ahead and propose a patch?

Please do.