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Re: multiple failures for info tests on cygwin


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: multiple failures for info tests on cygwin
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:58:39 +0200

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 10:21:01PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:43:45 +0200
> > From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
> > 
> That's most probably the side effect of using Cygwin tools again: the
> native port of info cannot run many of the tests because the test rig
> uses features not supported by native Windows programs (emulation of
> terminals and other such stuff).  When running the tests with MSYS,
> the test suite detects that and skips those tests, but since you run
> them with Cygwin, I'm guessing that the way the test suite detects
> Windows ports fails for some reason.
> 
> My records from running the test suite in Texinfo-7.1 indicate that 56
> of the info tests were skipped, whereas above you say that none were
> skipped.  So I'm quite sure this is the reason.

Ok, thanks.  I'll try to find a way to have the info tests similarily
skipped for cygwin and MSYS/mingw.  I am pretty sure that it is already
done that way in some places in the code where both mingw and cygwin are
treated the same.

-- 
Pat



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