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bug#7849: new instspc* test failures
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
bug#7849: new instspc* test failures |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:24:20 +0100 |
(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
- bug#7849: new instspc* test failures,
Stefano Lattarini <=