2011/4/18 Earnie <[email protected]>:
> Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How would I have to go about testing the win32 version of make
>> (which is very different in almost every unix vs windows way).
>> Running "/bin/make check" fails a lot of tests, but this may be due
>> to the difference in minw32-make vs regular GNU Make. Is there a way
>> or should I just not care?
>
> Run the make check outside of MSYS; you'll need to execute the
> mingw32-make binary to do the testing.  The mingw32-make and MSYS do not
> get along very well together; mainly due to the fact that mingw32-make
> is modified to tend to windows anomalies such as \ as the path delimiter
> and ; as the path list delimiter among other things.
>
> You may also find that you need to modify the test base results files so
> that they contain Windows line endings of \r\n instead of \n to get the
> test to pass.

Wow, I'll see if and when I find the courage :). I'll leave that to
the pro's. Thanks for the quick answer though.

Ruben

>
> Earnie
>

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