RE: [GnuCOBOL 3.0-rc1] testsuite: 17 failed

[pat.schmid]

Simon,
Thank you for the detailed response. 

I have been playing with the gnucobol install for version 2.2, 3.0, and 3.1.
When I get to the "make check" step they all fail on the compile from stdin
test. In looking at the testsuite.log each version is failing on the
"$COBCRUN_DIRECT ./a.out" command and it is failing with permission denied
on ./a.out. That is the only test that fails. As all the other tests pass I
must have done a successful install. That has me thinking the problem could
be with the configuration. What would be misconfigured on my system to cause
a permission denied error on the command "$COBCRUN_DIRECT ./a.out"? 

I am running on an old ASUS, their first portable that got Republic of
gaming certification (bought for the power and not the games) that is
running a currently updated Windows 10. I have installed Cygwin version
3.1.4. During installation when I got to the screen to select the packages
to be installed I took the option to install everything.

Patrick Schmid

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Sobisch <address@hidden> 
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 12:44 PM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [GnuCOBOL 3.0-rc1] testsuite: 17 failed

Hi Pat,

this error seems to have not come up here before (at least I do not remember
it) but there are two things to know:

3.0rc1 is quite outdated (there was and will be no 3.0 final release).
The current release plan for 3.1rc1 is May/June 2020.

I suggest to use a newer version, you can find the nightly builds'
address (as those are not unlikely to change in the future) listed at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/files/gnucobol/nightly_snapshots
/
  (the build history shows that the test is running now, also under Cygwin)

If you just wanted to use GnuCOBOL on Win32 (and not to extend your existing
Cygwin environment with GnuCOBOL) I highly suggest to just use the MinGW
based ready-to-use binary packages.
You find those at https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm (a quite
recent 3.1-dev is available there).

Thanks for reporting, letting others to know to possibly prefer a newer
and/or different environment than 3.0rc1 via Cygwin.

Simon


Am 06.05.2020 um 23:52 schrieb address@hidden:
> Results from install GNU COBOL Compiler, version 3.0 RC1. Had one 
> error, failed the compile from stdin test.
>
> Pat Schmid
> Chief Technical Officer, Teton Editorial Services
>