Re: make-3.82 testcases fail *sometimes*

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:40:55 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Right, I didn't mean flock() or something; I just meant test for
> existence.  But, doing a loop waiting for a file to exist in a UNIX
> shell vs. Windows command.com (for example) is not simple.

I don't see a problem: the test suite is written part in Perl and part
in Bourne shell commands in the Makefile's generated by the tests.
Both behave roughly the same on DOS/Windows as they do on Unix.
There's no command.com anywhere in sight, not in the test suite,
because the test suite cannot be run at all using the native
DOS/Windows shells.

> The first thing we should probably do is determine if the test suite
> runs on Windows and if so which of the Windows variations it supports
> (cygwin/mingw/native windows32/dos/etc.)

It supports all of them, assuming that one has Perl and a port of a
Unixy shell available.