bug#7849: new instspc* test failures

[Stefano Lattarini]

(Me rummaging in older bug reports ...)

Reference:
  <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7849>

On 01/16/2011 09:46 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> There are a number of new failures since the splitup of instspc.test.
> Most seem to stem from increased coverage.  Rather than putting each
> failure in a different PR, I'm listing a number of them here; we can
> still split things out further later if that proves necessary.
> 
> On MinGW, instspc-carriageret-* fail because the CR character is not
> treated correctly by the shell and/or other tools like sed.  I don't
> think this is fixable without fixing the shell.
> 
> On Cygwin, instspc-dotdotdot-build.test fails because executing a COFF
> binary in a directory named '...' fails (causing the "compiler works"
> test to fail at configure time):
> 
> $ mkdir ...
> $ cd ...
> $ cp /usr/bin/ls.exe .
> $ ./ls.exe
> bash: ./ls.exe: No such file or directory
> 
Can anyone still reproduce such failures with the latest version of
`instspc.tap' from master?  If yes, can anyone suggest some workarounds
for failures that are due to bugs/limitations in Cygwin and MSYS rather
than to automake bugs?

Thanks,
  Stefano