Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

[Charles Wilson]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> with all deliberate speed.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here.  If you mean applying the patch without
> a testsuite addition, then my humble reply is: if we had abandoned
> that strategy just longer ago, we'd have avoided a few embarrassing
> regressions.

Not this. Rushing ahead blindly would not be deliberate.

> If you mean not waiting on MinGW to change: sure.

This. Waiting (interminably) on MinGW changes would not be very speedy.

I know most of these the libtool/mingw-cross changes under complaint
were mine. However, I did at least try to ensure that they were a strict
improvement in regards to performance on existing tests.  If those tests
didn't catch some problems, well...yeah, better test coverage is (mostly
[*]) good.

--
Chuck

[*] except that it takes over three hours to run the testsuite natively
on cygwin, on my 3GHz machine...and under Vista, I have to *attend*
those three hours, thanks to this:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00681.html
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5dofbf

Ditto on native mingw...