Re: prove.sh test fails with MinGW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:03:13 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
> 
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 05:44:35PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 06:38:15PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > The prove.sh test fails here, because the version of 'prove' I have
> > > with MSYS is too old (1.04), and it doesn't support the -w switch.  I
> > > do have 'prove' as part of the newer Perl I use with texi2any, but
> > > it's a Windows batch file, so it will be difficult to invoke that from
> > > a Bash shell script.
> > > 
> > > Do we really need the -w switch?  If I remove it, the test passes.
> > 
> > Sorry, I see the file tp/prove.sh but I don't know anything about how
> > that file is used in the test suite.  Patrice?
> 
> tp/prove.sh is not used in the test suite, it is here as a convenience
> to run directly the t/*.t tests, and not through the automake generated
> facilities.

But "make check" in the top-level directory does run prove.sh.  Why is
that?