[bug #15947] tests/features/escape - 'path=p\:' test fails on Cygwin - cannot stat illegal filename

[Agent Zhang]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #15947 (project make):

On Cygwin 1.5.17-1, I can't reproduce your `escape' failure against GNU make
3.81rc1.

> make: stat: p:foo: No medium found

I was really amazed when I saw this. I don't think make should even *try* to
read the status info of `p:foo' according to the contents of
tests/scripts/features/escape.

I wonder if it's a bug in your build of Cygwin. Well, I could be wrong. :=)

> Here is the relevant section of my revised
> tests/features/escape, complete file also attached

I'm worried when I see the test suit getting messier and messier. Can't we
devise a more elegant and more portable testing framework for our GNU make?
:(

Agent


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