Re: GNU make 4.3.91 on Cygwin

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 23:37 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 03:01 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > On Cygwin 2.9.0 (64-bit), compilation works fine, but there are 11
> > test failures.
> 
> I don't test or support cygwin myself so it's not surprising.  The
> cygwin team apparently has a set of patches that they maintain for
> GNU make but I'm not sure what they are.
> 
> Getting a KGO-based test suite like GNU make's, to work on systems
> like Windows w/ Cygwin etc., is a tall order.

Is it feasible to run these tests, particularly the Windows ones, on
the GNU make 4.3 release package?  I'd just like to make sure I didn't
make things significantly worse there.  There was some puttering with
backslashes recently that _shouldn't_ have made any difference but...

I suppose at some point I'll have to figure out how to work with
Cygwin.  I don't have access to a Windows system where I'm free to
install whatever I want unfortunately.  About all I can easily test is
compiling with MSVC using the build_w32.bat script.  I could remove the
MinGW shutils from my PATH and get the suite working without them but I
don't want to undertake that for this release.