bug#74805: 30.0.92; Trying to build scratch/igc on Cygwin

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:05:58 -0800
>> 
>> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > I've made a first attempt to port mps to Cygwin.  If anyone else is
>> > interested in seeing this or helping, you can find my work at
>> >
>> >    https://github.com/kbrow1i/mps-cygwin
>> >
>> > This is a fork of the mps git repo with two commits on top.
>> >
>> > With the current attempt, I can build the scratch/igc branch, but there
>> > are many test failures.  For example, when I run the process-tests, I
>> > get 19 failures and 8 skipped tests.  But on the master branch I get no
>> > failures and only 3 skipped.
>> >
>> > This probably means that my current attempt to port mps is no good, and
>> > I have to go back to the drawing board.  Before I do that, however, I'd
>> > like to check and see if test failures on scratch/igc are to be
>> > expected.  Are people testing other platforms seeing this too?
>> 
>> Do we expect upstream to be amenable to eventually taking these patches?
>
> I don't think we've asked them.  Maybe Gerd knows?

I haven't done anything like that. I've only submitted some minor Github
issue when I was playing with MPS, and I've sent them a mail to let them
know what's going on when I made what I had public here on emacs-devel.