Re: make/tests issues

[J. Grant]

on the 06/03/04 15:34, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I agree with Eli that we shouldn't need special handling in the
> regression tests.  There are three tools involved: make, perl, and diff.
> Perl writes the base file, make writes the log file, and diff compares
> them.  As long as the first two use the same line ending method, diff
> should have no issue regardless of whether it's CRLF or LF.

How does perl write the base files?  I did not spot any code that does
this.

> So, the question is why does make write newlines one way when it writes
> "\n", and Perl write newlines the other way when _it_ writes "\n"?

As make is compiled by me with MSVC6 as a "win32 console application" it
be using the CRLF console output format used on MS-Windows.

> And, is there any way to get Perl to use the same line ending method as
> make?

Wherever perl is writing these base files it just needs to write "\r\n".
This could be based on an "if($windows32)" check or so.  I am not clear
where the base processing is though.


Regards

JG