Re: pipe-filter self-tests

[Eric Blake]

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According to Simon Josefsson on 8/20/2009 7:27 AM:
> These self-tests appears to invoke the external command 'tr' which
> doesn't work well under Windows, or does it?

GNU Coding Standards state that tr can be assumed to be available (and it
should be part of mingw).  But you are right that on Windows it is not a
standard command unless you have installed it (as part of MSYS, cygwin,
etc...)

> FWIW, there are other failures too:
> 
> test-pipe.c:79: assertion failed
> test-pipe.sh: iteration 4 failed
> test-pipe.c:79: assertion failed
> test-pipe.sh: iteration 5 failed
> test-pipe.c:79: assertion failed
> test-pipe.sh: iteration 6 failed
> test-pipe.c:79: assertion failed
> test-pipe.sh: iteration 7 failed
> FAIL: test-pipe.sh

Hmm; that worked for me when cross-compiling from cygwin to mingw, but
maybe when executed directly in Windows, there is something affecting how
stderr is passed to child processes.  I'll have to see if I can reproduce
your test setup.

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