Re: make/tests issues

[J. Grant]

on the 06/03/04 11:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:17:08 +0000
> > From: "J. Grant" <address@hidden>
> >
> > Could someone tell me which configurations of shell and perl
> > successfully work with the make/tests perl scripts?
> > MSYS which I am using presently is not very successful.
>
> This question is too general to answer specifically (in particular, I
> don't know enough about MSYS to tell anything intelligent).  All I can
> say is that you need a coherent set of tools, so that, for instance,
> they all handle the end-of-line nuisance consistently.


Even using a native win32 perl, GNU diff etc would result in the same
test failures if the base files were in LF format.

When you (or anyone else on address@hidden) run the tests on
MS-Windows how do you avoid these LF discrepancy issues?  Or do people
only run them on native unices?


Best regards

JG