> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:40:55 -0400 > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > Right, I didn't mean flock() or something; I just meant test for > existence. But, doing a loop waiting for a file to exist in a UNIX > shell vs. Windows command.com (for example) is not simple.
I don't see a problem: the test suite is written part in Perl and part in Bourne shell commands in the Makefile's generated by the tests. Both behave roughly the same on DOS/Windows as they do on Unix. There's no command.com anywhere in sight, not in the test suite, because the test suite cannot be run at all using the native DOS/Windows shells. > The first thing we should probably do is determine if the test suite > runs on Windows and if so which of the Windows variations it supports > (cygwin/mingw/native windows32/dos/etc.) It supports all of them, assuming that one has Perl and a port of a Unixy shell available. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
