Re: GNU make 4.3.92 on mingw

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 16:29 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> With GNU make 4.3.92, this is down to 75 test failures.

Just curious how this MinGW test works; are you running the MinGW
"cross-compiler" installed by the Cygwin package manager, and doing the
build/test from within a Cygwin shell?

A lot of these seem to be CRLF errors in the diff, where it would
otherwise match.  I know that the test framework does some manipulation
of CRLF.  Maybe it only strips CRLF when it thinks we're running in a
"Windows" environment, and for some reason this environment is not
detected properly.

There are other similar issues, like the test thinks we can use the
pipe version of the jobserver when that's not supported in MinGW.

I'll take a look at this.