[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40606] mxe-octave built octave: fails syscalls.cc-tst

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #40606 (project octave):

@comment #3:
Yes, why not? Would make the test easier as well, perhaps we can skip the "if
(ispc)" then.

Older Octave binaries for Windows (up until 3.6.4) didn't have sort.exe in
<OCTAVE_HOME>/bin, so they relied on the one in %WINDIR%\system32

If we go along this route we need to be sure that Windows builds are
guaranteed to have MinGW sort.exe early in the PATH.
That works automagically now, but I simply don't understand why - do you? As
long as it isn't clear why, it cannot be ruled out it'll break any moment.

Maybe msys sort.exe is picked up rather than the Windows one as a consequence
of the patches JWE implemented to get <OCTAVE_HOME>/bin added to the PATH.


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