Re: Patches for Mingw/MSYS

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* heromyth wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:53:59AM CEST:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote:
> 
> In fact, there are two development environment in MSYS Tools of Mingw.
> One is MINGW, and another is MSYS.

Is it possible to have both installed in parallel on the same system,
so we can test both?  How?

Do you have a config.guess which outputs something containing `msys' in
the name?  Please show.  Please also show `config.guess --version'.

> This patch should be done, I think, maybe before more tests have done.
> There are tow EXE file, if there is no this patch. One is real EXE file
> existed in subdirctory .libs, and another is just a shell script file
> which EXTname is EXE and just can be run in Shell(I think the EXE is
> redundant ).
> 
> During the tests of automake CVS, I make a test running this:
>       VERBOSE=yes make check TESTS="nobase.test"
> If no this patch, this test can't pass. After failed, I run this cmd:
>       ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o sub/base.exe 
>       source.o
> 
> in testSubDir, and I get a file named base(notice no .exe) in
> testSubDir/sub and another file named base.exe in testSubDir/sub/.libs.
> 
> Now I run the same command again. This time I also get two file: both
> are named base.exe. The one in testSubDir/sub is still just a script
> file. The original base disappears.
> 
> And run the command again. The result is same to the first running.
> 
> And run again, the result is same to the second running.
> 
> And run again, the result just repeat the first tow runnings.
>       ............
> 
> If I patch it, this phenomena disappears. Just get base in
> testSubDir/sub and base.exe in testSubDir/sub/.libs

I'm sorry, but I cannot understand most of the above quoted stuff
precisely.  It would be easier if you could just cut and paste what you
enter and what is printed.  Programs like `screen' and `script' can help
with this (but I don't know about their availability for mingw/msys).

Regards,
Ralf