徐持恒 wrote:
> Finally, I found, that, to run test, you must first install guile, autogen,
> tck/tk, expect, dejagnu.
> In Msys+MinGW and Cygwin environments, these tools are missing or outdated.
The ones in the cygwin distro may be outdated, but they work just fine for
running "make check". The only problem is you can't use "-j" with "make
check", but everything else works OK. (Also you can get by without autogen
and guile.)
> I spend a lot of time to have the latest versions of these packages to be
> build and installed in Cygwin, with some patchs applied of course.
> Sometimes, I even edit configure.ac file, and run "autoreconf" with the
> newest version of autoconf, automake, libtool installed. For expect-5.43.0,
> it is even necessary for Cygwin to masquerade as a linux host by specifing
> "--host=i686-pc-linux", thus the configure script can run without a
> complain.
No, it is not only not "necessary", it is completely incorrect. Tricking
configure about what system it is running on will simply make it do the wrong
things and cause it to build an executable that does the wrong things and
doesn't work.
> Having all these tools installed, I found, most of the test results of "make
> check" is "fail" in Cygwin environment.
See?
> I'm very disappointed with this.
Shouldn't have given false information to configure then, sorry. Use the
standard packages, they ought to work for you too.
As for MinGW testing, I think the people who work on it do indeed use the
Cygwin tools from within MSYS shell to run the tests, but I don't know how
exactly they set it up. You might get a quicker answer if you asked on the
mingw list.
cheers,
DaveK
