David Pope wrote:
> I've been trying to get the tests to run cleanly (host and target: Windows
> 7 x64), but I'm not having much luck with some of them. Are they
> up-to-date and expected to run cleanly?
On Linux they do. Some tests may not work on Windows. Some may not
work when some external commands are missing.
> I've been assuming that any issues I'm finding are due to my own
> environment, of course. But test 73, for example, isn't cooperating. It
> tests autocompletion for the :find command, and several of its tests set
> the '**' wildchar in the path option, e.g.
>
> set path=Xfind/**
>
> It's not working right. When troubleshooting I found this note at the end
> of editing.txt:
>
> Note that completion for ":find", ":sfind", and ":tabfind" commands do
> not
> currently work with 'path' items that contain a url or use the double
> star
> (/usr/**2) or upward search (;) notations. >
>
> Is the doc accurate? If so, what does that mean for the test?
Path expansion has been unreliable, I have suggested to do a rewrite,
but that hasn't happened yet. Test 73 is included for Mingw and DOS
though, thus I think they do work, or did work at some point in time.
> Since I've encountered a handful of other tests that seem to exhibit a
> little "bit rot" (my own environment may still be the culprit, of course),
> I figured now would be a good time to ask whether they're expected to run
> on Windows 7, before I continue digging in. I've already been running
> under the debugger and I have a clue to what's going on, but the find-files
> code is a lot to digest.
The tests should either succeed or be skipped. What Makefile are you
using?
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