[darcs-users] can we get rid of perl requirement in our test suite?
Eric Kow
kowey at darcs.net
Wed May 27 09:17:07 UTC 2009
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:55:37 +0100, Steve Gardner wrote:
> On Windows, stat(1) isn't available in MSYS 1.0.10 but "test file1 -ef
> file2" is. Unfortunately the POSIX.1-2008 page for "test" ([1]) doesn't
> require implementations to support it, despite giving it a mention near
> the end of the "Rationale" section.
>
> [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html
Actually, this suggests another solution: we could just disable this one
test under Windows and move on.
In fact, I don't think optimize --relink even does anything on Windows!
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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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