Re: HEAD: NEWS rewrite and update

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:41:20PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >Please also send tests/testsuite.log (after or before the re-run, both
> >are interesting).  It has more details.  Thanks!
> 
> "old" one attached.

Thank you.

>     13 - FC -- cygwin's gcc is 3.4.4, so it has g77 but not gfortran.

This should be fixed now.  (The test is skipped if FC is `no').

>     14 - Java -- I think cygwin's gcc has gcj, but I've never used it
>          at all, and have no idea if it even works for HelloWorld.java.

Hmm, weird.  Since I don't know Java well, this may be an error of mine
in the test just as well as a bug in gcj.  Would be good to look at.

>     19 - static linking flags for programs

I've seen this before.  static.at needs a bigger rewrite for w32 due to
a largish thinko of self when writing it.  Expect a patch in a couple of
weeks or so.

>     46 - build tree relpaths

Expected failure.  (Known bug in libtool; this test is just to remind us
of it.)

>     48 - Run tests with low max_cmd_len: 20070205 predates a lot of
>          Ralf's recent max_cmd_len fixes.

Still its only failures are due to the other test failures.  (The low
max_cmd_len test runs some of the other ones inside.)

More failures were observed with this after export.at was added, which
was after this test round was done.

Cheers,
Ralf