Re: [GnuCOBOL 3.1.2] testsuite: 783 796 failed

[Simon Sobisch]

Am 09.08.2022 um 19:51 schrieb Danny Castillo:
> Hello. I have run some checks I have received 31 failed test. I wonder 
> if I could get some help on solving those issues. I have added the logs 
> in it
>
> Best Regards
> Danny Castillo

Hi Danny and welcome to GnuCOBOL.

Your testlog shows a bunch of expected failures (so things the GnuCOBOL 
developers are aware about, but that aren't implemented / fixed yet) and 
two "unexpected" failures.
When looking at the NEWS file this is because of the environment used - 
Cygwin should work in general (and the testsuite in general shows it 
does) but it has two "false positives" that are related in cygwin's 
posix api translation of "./prog2" or ".\prog2"  to ".prog2" (which is 
obviously wrong).

Patches to adjust the testsuite would be accepted.
If you don't use Cygwin for a lot of other things already it is highly 
suggested to not use it for GnuCOBOL either - instead use MinGW or MSYS2 
based GnuCOBOL binaries (you may even need to do that depending on what 
you want to do with the generated binaries as you otherwise link to 
cygwin.dll and need to abide to its license) - those are in general 
better tested, much more widely used and if you just want to use 
GnuCOBOL, you can also get "officially blessed" pre-build binary 
packages from https://arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm

Regards,
Simon