Re: [Mingw-w64-public] testing mingw32-make in msys

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How would I have to go about testing the win32 version of make
> (which is very different in almost every unix vs windows way).
> Running "/bin/make check" fails a lot of tests, but this may be due
> to the difference in minw32-make vs regular GNU Make. Is there a way
> or should I just not care?

Run the make check outside of MSYS; you'll need to execute the
mingw32-make binary to do the testing.  The mingw32-make and MSYS do not
get along very well together; mainly due to the fact that mingw32-make
is modified to tend to windows anomalies such as \ as the path delimiter
and ; as the path list delimiter among other things.

You may also find that you need to modify the test base results files so
that they contain Windows line endings of \r\n instead of \n to get the
test to pass.

Earnie