Re: make 3.81 MinGW port and testsuite working with MSYS

[J. Grant]

Hi Alessandro,

on the 28/02/05 08:32, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> "Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> >   >> It won't work on a win32 perl, because of the `2>&1'. Of course,
> >   >> we need a unixy shell to run the tests, but AFAIK there's no way
> >   >> to let perl also use it.
> >
> >   ez> Really?  Can't you run the command via sh.exe explicitly, i.e. use the
> >   ez> command
> >
> >   ez>     sh -c "WHATEVER 2>&1"
>
> Yup, this works, but is redundant if using attach/detach _default_output.
> (On ActivePerl, stdio and stderr will not be synchronized anyway)
> Curiously, `sh -c "WHATEVER 2>&1 > $filename"' does not redirect as expected.

I think if I understand your point correctly there is a mistake in your 
point.

The setting the output redirect to $filename should come before the 
stderr -> stdout redirection.

So for instance:

sh -c "make -fmissing.makefile >log.txt 2>&1"

This will result in a "log.txt" file containing:

make: missing.makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `missing.makefile'.  Stop.


Kind regards
JG

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