(Me rummaging in older bug reports ...) Reference: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7849>
On 01/16/2011 09:46 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > There are a number of new failures since the splitup of instspc.test. > Most seem to stem from increased coverage. Rather than putting each > failure in a different PR, I'm listing a number of them here; we can > still split things out further later if that proves necessary. > > On MinGW, instspc-carriageret-* fail because the CR character is not > treated correctly by the shell and/or other tools like sed. I don't > think this is fixable without fixing the shell. > > On Cygwin, instspc-dotdotdot-build.test fails because executing a COFF > binary in a directory named '...' fails (causing the "compiler works" > test to fail at configure time): > > $ mkdir ... > $ cd ... > $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe . > $ ./ls.exe > bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory > Can anyone still reproduce such failures with the latest version of `instspc.tap' from master? If yes, can anyone suggest some workarounds for failures that are due to bugs/limitations in Cygwin and MSYS rather than to automake bugs? Thanks, Stefano
