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Re: testsuite failure on cygwin
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: testsuite failure on cygwin |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:09:33 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22) |
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:14:42PM CEST:
> It turns out that this line (in both tests):
>
> gcc -E -dD -o - conftest.c || AS_EXIT([77])
>
> is not portable to cygwin, where gcc currently compiles ./-.exe rather
> than outputting to stdout. Do we really need the '-o -' in that command
> line?
No; thanks for fixing it. The marker comments are paying off in making
our manual suggest more portable examples! :-)
> And should I be reporting the surprising behavior of creating
> -.exe as a gcc/cygwin bug to the appropriate folks?
I think you should.
Thanks,
Ralf