Re: HEAD: NEWS rewrite and update

[Charles Wilson]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> I've done a test round of CVS HEAD some weeks ago, and fixed
> the bulk of the failures that I encountered.  There are still
> some left; most notably I've been neglecting w32 systems, due
> to their testing being so cumbersome and less parallelizable
> for me (ssh access to Cygwin or MinGW for me anyone?).

Can't help there; my only win32 system is a laptop that travels with me. 
However, I ran the HEAD testsuite about two weeks ago -- before the 
recent mdemo fixes. Here are my results:

(1) Old tests:
    all mdemo/mdemo2 stuff. I'm betting that these four failures have
    been fixed now.
(2) New tests:
    13 - FC -- cygwin's gcc is 3.4.4, so it has g77 but not gfortran.
    14 - Java -- I think cygwin's gcc has gcj, but I've never used it
         at all, and have no idea if it even works for HelloWorld.java.
    19 - static linking flags for programs
    46 - build tree relpaths
    48 - Run tests with low max_cmd_len: 20070205 predates a lot of
         Ralf's recent max_cmd_len fixes.

So, given the recent fixes, cygwin's testsuite compliance on HEAD looks 
pretty good.  I'll rebuild with latest HEAD and re-run soon.

--
Chuck