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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 13:37
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Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: development: 8.5a2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Andreas Kupries (andreas_kupries)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 13:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kennykb
You can respond by visiting: 
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Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: development: 8.5a2
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Andreas Kupries (andreas_kupries)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 22:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nijtmans
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=110894&aid=967195&group_id=10894

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
>Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
>Assigned to: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by dgp
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=110894&aid=967195&group_id=10894

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nijtmans
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=110894&aid=967195&group_id=10894

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:10

Message:
Modified tcltest.tcl in all branches such that it no
longer transfers default configuration arguments
to its sub-processes. This is the simplest fix, to make
at least tcltest work in all situations, no matter
how tclsh/tcltest expands its arguments.

It's an improvement which doesn't hurt: It only
modifies the command line arguments used
between the main tcltest process and its
sub-processes, it's not visible outside.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by dgp
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=110894&aid=967195&group_id=10894

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:12

Message:
As the tcltest maintainer, I'd like to review patches.


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:10

Message:
Modified tcltest.tcl in all branches such that it no
longer transfers default configuration arguments
to its sub-processes. This is the simplest fix, to make
at least tcltest work in all situations, no matter
how tclsh/tcltest expands its arguments.

It's an improvement which doesn't hurt: It only
modifies the command line arguments used
between the main tcltest process and its
sub-processes, it's not visible outside.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by dgp
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Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:16

Message:
I see this reduces the number of arguments
passed to child processes in the -singleproc 0
mode.  That seems fine.  Is the length of the
command line an issue here?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:12

Message:
As the tcltest maintainer, I'd like to review patches.


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:10

Message:
Modified tcltest.tcl in all branches such that it no
longer transfers default configuration arguments
to its sub-processes. This is the simplest fix, to make
at least tcltest work in all situations, no matter
how tclsh/tcltest expands its arguments.

It's an improvement which doesn't hurt: It only
modifies the command line arguments used
between the main tcltest process and its
sub-processes, it's not visible outside.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nijtmans
You can respond by visiting: 
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Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-12-01 00:56

Message:
The issue was not the length of the command line, but the
fact that the command line contains '*' as one of the
arguments. In an (incorrectly) built tclsh, this expands
to multiple arguments, which screws up all Tcl tests,
not only the ones testing command line arguments.

My further ideas have nothing to do with tcltest, but
at least this change allows me to concentrate
on the real problem here.

Further idea: backport handling of
TCL_BROKEN_MAINARGS from Tcl 8.6
to 8.5 and 8.4, so the setargv() function
is only used when necessary (i.e with
cygwin and mingw32, but not mingw-w64).

Final step: I would like to discuss on Tcl-Core
removing support for mingw32 in Tcl 8.6:
There is an alternative now (mingw-w64)
which does a much better job, not only
in command line handling but in much
more areas. This means that the function
setargv() finally can be removed completely.
People ignoring this, still using mingw32,
will have a few failing tests, like winpipe-8.19,
but those rightfully point to bugs in mingw32.

Regards,
       Jan Nijtmans

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:16

Message:
I see this reduces the number of arguments
passed to child processes in the -singleproc 0
mode.  That seems fine.  Is the length of the
command line an issue here?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:12

Message:
As the tcltest maintainer, I'd like to review patches.


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:10

Message:
Modified tcltest.tcl in all branches such that it no
longer transfers default configuration arguments
to its sub-processes. This is the simplest fix, to make
at least tcltest work in all situations, no matter
how tclsh/tcltest expands its arguments.

It's an improvement which doesn't hurt: It only
modifies the command line arguments used
between the main tcltest process and its
sub-processes, it's not visible outside.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nijtmans
You can respond by visiting: 
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Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
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Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
>Status: Pending
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
>Assigned to: Don Porter (dgp)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2012-06-12 06:09

Message:
I think this one can be closed now.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-12-01 00:56

Message:
The issue was not the length of the command line, but the
fact that the command line contains '*' as one of the
arguments. In an (incorrectly) built tclsh, this expands
to multiple arguments, which screws up all Tcl tests,
not only the ones testing command line arguments.

My further ideas have nothing to do with tcltest, but
at least this change allows me to concentrate
on the real problem here.

Further idea: backport handling of
TCL_BROKEN_MAINARGS from Tcl 8.6
to 8.5 and 8.4, so the setargv() function
is only used when necessary (i.e with
cygwin and mingw32, but not mingw-w64).

Final step: I would like to discuss on Tcl-Core
removing support for mingw32 in Tcl 8.6:
There is an alternative now (mingw-w64)
which does a much better job, not only
in command line handling but in much
more areas. This means that the function
setargv() finally can be removed completely.
People ignoring this, still using mingw32,
will have a few failing tests, like winpipe-8.19,
but those rightfully point to bugs in mingw32.

Regards,
       Jan Nijtmans

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:16

Message:
I see this reduces the number of arguments
passed to child processes in the -singleproc 0
mode.  That seems fine.  Is the length of the
command line an issue here?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:12

Message:
As the tcltest maintainer, I'd like to review patches.


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:10

Message:
Modified tcltest.tcl in all branches such that it no
longer transfers default configuration arguments
to its sub-processes. This is the simplest fix, to make
at least tcltest work in all situations, no matter
how tclsh/tcltest expands its arguments.

It's an improvement which doesn't hurt: It only
modifies the command line arguments used
between the main tcltest process and its
sub-processes, it's not visible outside.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-967195 ] Test failures on mingw build

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Bugs item #967195, was opened at 2004-06-05 10:37
Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by nijtmans
You can respond by visiting: 
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Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
including the initial issue submission, for this request,
not just the latest update.
Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: obsolete: 8.5a2
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Assigned to: Don Porter (dgp)
Summary: Test failures on mingw build

Initial Comment:
Platform: Win2k
Compiler: mingw gcc
Configuration options: --enable-symbols --enable-threads

With the above configuration, the following error occurs
when running make TESTFLAGS='-singleproc 1' test.
Without the '-singleproc 1' option, every test file
fails with a verbose error message because of this
bug.

The test works correctly under 8.4 (tip of branch)
or under VC++ - the problem is specific to mingw
and 8.5.

==== winpipe-8.19 ensure parse_cmdline isn't doing
wildcard replacement FAILED
==== Contents of test case:

    exec [interpreter] $path(echoArgs.tcl) foo *
makefile.?c bar

---- Result was:
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo big cat32.exe cat32.o
config.log config.status config.st
atus.lineno echoArgs.tcl libtcl85g.a libtcldde13g.a
libtclreg11g.a libtclstub85g
.a little Makefile nothing regcomp.o regerror.o
regexec.o regfree.o stderr stdou
t strftime.o strtoll.o strtoull.o stub16.o tcl.hpj
tcl.res.o tcl85g.dll tclAlloc
.o tclAppInit.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o
tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o tclCmd
AH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclConfig.o
tclConfig.sh tclDate.o tcldde13g.dll tclDictObj.o
tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEven
t.o tclExecute.o tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o
tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclInde
xObj.o tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o
tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o tclLink.
o tclListObj.o tclLiteral.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o
tclNamesp.o tclNotify.o tclObj.o
 tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPathObj.o
tclpip85g.dll tclPipe.o tclPk
g.o tclPkgConfig.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o
tclProc.o tclreg11g.dll tclRegexp
.o tclResolve.o tclResult.o tclScan.o tclsh.res.o
tclsh85g.exe tclStringObj.o tc
lStubInit.o tclStubLib.o tcltest.exe tclTest.o
tclTestObj.o tclTestProcBodyObj.o
 tclThread.o tclThreadAlloc.o tclThreadJoin.o
tclThreadTest.o tclTimer.o tclTrac
e.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWi
nDde.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o tclWinFile.o
tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinN
otify.o tclWinPipe.o tclWinReg.o tclWinSerial.o
tclWinSock.o tclWinTest.o tclWin
Thrd.o tclWinTime.o testMain.o makefile.?c bar}
---- Result should have been (exact matching):
{C:/Documents and Settings/kennykb/My
Documents/SourceForge/tcl/NSK1KENNKEVI01-m
ingw/echoArgs.tcl} {foo * makefile.?c bar}
==== winpipe-8.19 FAILED

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Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2012-06-12 06:09

Message:
I think this one can be closed now.

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Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-12-01 00:56

Message:
The issue was not the length of the command line, but the
fact that the command line contains '*' as one of the
arguments. In an (incorrectly) built tclsh, this expands
to multiple arguments, which screws up all Tcl tests,
not only the ones testing command line arguments.

My further ideas have nothing to do with tcltest, but
at least this change allows me to concentrate
on the real problem here.

Further idea: backport handling of
TCL_BROKEN_MAINARGS from Tcl 8.6
to 8.5 and 8.4, so the setargv() function
is only used when necessary (i.e with
cygwin and mingw32, but not mingw-w64).

Final step: I would like to discuss on Tcl-Core
removing support for mingw32 in Tcl 8.6:
There is an alternative now (mingw-w64)
which does a much better job, not only
in command line handling but in much
more areas. This means that the function
setargv() finally can be removed completely.
People ignoring this, still using mingw32,
will have a few failing tests, like winpipe-8.19,
but those rightfully point to bugs in mingw32.

Regards,
       Jan Nijtmans

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:16

Message:
I see this reduces the number of arguments
passed to child processes in the -singleproc 0
mode.  That seems fine.  Is the length of the
command line an issue here?

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:12

Message:
As the tcltest maintainer, I'd like to review patches.


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Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:10

Message:
Modified tcltest.tcl in all branches such that it no
longer transfers default configuration arguments
to its sub-processes. This is the simplest fix, to make
at least tcltest work in all situations, no matter
how tclsh/tcltest expands its arguments.

It's an improvement which doesn't hurt: It only
modifies the command line arguments used
between the main tcltest process and its
sub-processes, it's not visible outside.

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2011-11-30 13:06

Message:
Why does this bug involve changes to
the tcltest package?

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Comment By: Jan Nijtmans (nijtmans)
Date: 2011-11-30 05:10

Message:
Since a few years, mingw-w64 is available, which does the
command line parsing correctly, So I would like to
finally get rid of the setargv function: This should not
be Tcl's responsibility. Working on that.

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Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-06-11 19:08

Message:
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user_id=99768

mingw runtime still needs the old 'setargv' function that
was removed back in February.  I put it back, conditioned on
#if defined( __GNUC__ )


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