Re: MSVC build test results

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting "J. Grant" <address@hidden>:

> I guess this problem is because of the mix between MinGW/MSVC build 
> and MSYS unix wrapping shell stuff.

Yes.  It is the reason that I had to supply an MSYS version of make and 
perl.  I
had hoped in the beginning to use native versions but I didn't have the 
time to
sort out the issues.

> Any suggestions Earnie?

Other than installing ActiveState Perl, removing the influence of MSYS 
and then
doing the make check using the newly built make to instantiate the process; no
I don't have suggestions for this issue.

MSYS does try to emulate symlink; but only to the point that the source must
exist, a copy is actually affected.  Also, a reference to an executable 
without
the .exe extension is treated as a symlink so I can't just do ENOSYS or 
nothing
would execute unless we specified the .exe on the file name.

I wonder what would break if MSYS getcwd returned the windows path instead?

Earnie