"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > %% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I didn't add this patch anyway; there's no reason to require an > >> extra application like that when Perl can quite trivially make this > >> change itself. > > jg> I wonder if you locally implemented this CR stripping > jg> functionality? (I could not see it in CVS version of > jg> test_driver.pl) > > I haven't committed anything, but I did send a replacement function > to this set of recipients yesterday that tries to make this change. > > Alessandro sent an alternative later that I haven't looked at yet.
That only stripped slashes, not yet CRs. > jg> I will work through these and submit fixes over the coming > jg> days/weeks. What are your thoughts regarding waiting for further > jg> MinGW/MSVC patches to be merged in before the 3.81 release? > > I'd really prefer to avoid delaying the release. Please, concentrate on > making sure that the port behaves correctly, it will build properly, > etc. I get the whole variables/SHELL suite failing. Does it do so also on NT and properly installed MinGW? If it does, I would consider delaying the release a few days for properly fixing it. If not, I would just mention that win95/98 is not fully supported in 3.81 (if I were Paul, that is.) > If the only issue is that some of the regression tests don't run > properly due to system differences I probably wouldn't want to hold the > release just for that, as long as we understand what breaks and more or > less why (enough to know it's a test suite problem rather than a problem > with make itself). > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: > http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist > > _______________________________________________ > Make-w32 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32 _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
