When using Perl's backticks make sure that the path to the command
invoked is quoted. On Windows, in particular, paths to commands such
as diff, etc. may contain whitespace.
Strawberry Perl has some different behaviors from ActiveState Perl
which impact the test suite:
- Avoid Perl's chomp() as it may not remove CRs; chomp() may remove
only the final NL but not the CR in a CRNL line ending.
- Strawberry Perl doesn't support ActiveState's system(1, ...) form.
- Strawberry Perl (or msys?) does something weird with "/tmp" when
provided to exec(), replacing it with the user's %TEMP%.
- Strawberry Perl uses msys paths like /c/foo instead of C:\foo.
* tests/test_driver.pl (get_osname): Strawberry Perl uses 'msys' as
its $^O so if we see that use a port of 'W32'.
(_run_with_timeout): Strawberry Perl doesn't support the special
system(1, ...) form of system() so use POSIX standard fork/exec.
(compare_answer): Paths generated by Strawberry Perl use msys path
format (e.g., /c/foo instead of C:\foo); check for those differences
and compare RE against both the unmodified and modified log.
* tests/run_make_tests.pl (set_defaults): Switch from chomp to s///
to remove CRNL and NL line endings.
* tests/scripts/features/errors: Executing directories on Strawberry
will give an error; translate it to Windows error output format.
* tests/scripts/features/output-sync: Ditto.
* tests/scripts/features/temp_stdin: Ditto.
* tests/scripts/functions/realpath: Ditto.
* tests/scripts/options/dash-I: Ditto.
* tests/scripts/variables/INCLUDE_DIRS: Ditto.
* tests/scripts/misc/close_stdout: /dev/full is reported as existing
on Strawberry Perl, but it doesn't do anything. Skip the test.
* tests/scripts/variables/MAKEFLAGS: When an argument containing
/tmp is passed to a program via exec(), something replaces it with
the expansion of the %TEMP% variable. Instead of using /tmp create
a local directory to use.
* main.c (main): Sanitize program name detection on Windows.
* makeint.h: 'program' is a const string on all platforms now.
* tests/run_make_tests.bat: Windows bat file to invoke tests
* tests/test_driver.pl: Obtain system-specific error messages.
(get_osname): Compute the $port_type here. Add more $osname checks
for different Windows Perl ports.
(_run_command): Rewrite the timeout capability to work properly
with Windows. Don't use Perl fork/exec; instead use system(1,...)
which allows a more reliable/proper kill operation.
Also, allow options to be given as a list instead of a string, to
allow more complex quoting of command-line arguments.
* tests/run_make_tests.pl (run_make_with_options): Allow options
to be provided as a list in addition to a simple string.
(set_more_defaults): Write sample makefiles and run make on them
instead of trying to run echo and invoking make with -f-, to avoid
relying on shell and echo to get basic configuration values. Also
create a $sh_name variable instead of hard-coding /bin/sh.
* tests/scripts/features/archives: Skip on Windows.
* tests/scripts/features/escape: Use list method for passing options.
* tests/scripts/features/include: Use system-specific error messages.
* tests/scripts/features/output-sync: "Command not found" errors
generate very different / odd output on Windows. This needs to be
addressed but for now disable these tests on Windows.
* tests/scripts/functions/abspath: Disable on Windows.
* tests/scripts/functions/file: Use system-specific error messages.
* tests/scripts/functions/shell: "Command not found" errors generate
very different / odd output on Windows. This needs to be addressed
but for now disable these tests on Windows.
* tests/scripts/misc/close_stdout: Disable on Windows.
* tests/scripts/options/dash-k: Use system-specific error messages.
* tests/scripts/options/dash-l: Disable on Windows.
* tests/scripts/options/eval: Use list method for passing options.
* tests/scripts/options/general: Skip some non-portable tests.
* tests/scripts/targets/ONESHELL: Skip some non-portable tests.
* tests/scripts/targets/POSIX: Skip some non-portable tests.
* tests/scripts/variables/MAKEFILES: Skip some non-portable tests.
* tests/scripts/variables/SHELL: Use a makefile not -f- for testing.
Update NEWS docs.
Enhance the manual to use automake version.texi, and use the canonical
FSF copyright features and statement.
Some $(realpath ...) tests won't work on Windows; leave them out
The jobserver filedescriptor test might fail if some FDs are reserved,
so for now comment out that check.
