Hello David, > This should now be in plain text.
It is. Thanks. > Here are the requested details about my specific setup. It is a > standard MinGW install (mingw-get-inst-20110211.exe) using the > pre-packaged repository catalogs and MSYS. > ... > - 50GB NTFS partition on a local SATA drive > ... > GCC: gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) [Target: mingw32] > LD: GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.21 > Make: GNU Make 3.81 (i686-pc-msys) > MinGW version from _mingw.h: 3.18 This is very bizarre. I can't reproduce the failure. I created a testdir with $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests --dir=/tmp/testdir poll, transferred that testdir to a Windows XP machine (also NTFS file system), and the test-binary-io.sh test succeeds, both in MSYS (with an older mingw, running inside the MSYS provided 'rxvt') and Cygwin. What should we do about this now? Given that MSYS is not a recommended environment (because of the hacks that it does in the command-line argument processing, and because of the pipe handling bugs it has when running inside rxvt), I'd propose to just add a comment to test-binary-io.sh stating that this test may fail on MSYS. What do you think? Bruno -- In memoriam Otto Freundlich <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Freundlich>
