Re: Base tests on Windows

[Fred Kiefer]

On 04.04.2011 22:36, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 4 Apr 2011, at 20:39, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
> > Some of the differences in the test outcome look like you are using
> > a different MinGW set up to what Riccardo and I are using. Which
> > GNUstep for MinGW installation are you using?
>
> Not sure ... I have gnustep-core-0.23.1 and gnustep-devel-1.0.0 an
> gnustep-system-0.23.0 in my home directory, but I'm not certain they
> are what's installed.

Interesing, my system seems to be newer than that. I have 0.25 of core 
and system and 1.1.1 of devel.

> > And did you install anything manually on top of that?
>
> icu-4_6 with Sefan's patch of course, but I also have
> gnutls-2.9.2.exe in my directory with a more recent date than the
> gnustep pacages,so I guess I probably installed that at some point.

I don't have these two, which leads to plenty of tests being skipped.

> > Did you see the mail I send to the developer mailing list in reply
> > to Riccardo's list of failed tests?
>
> I've read that now ... the NSDecimalNumber failures seem strange.
>
> > Could you please check whether iconv support gets detected for
> > you?
>
> Yes, iconv is detected.

This should be the main difference, but where does your version of iconv 
come from?