Re: [Bug-wget] Wget 1.13.4 test suite on Windows/MinGW

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello Eli,


Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:


Thanks for your report,

> Did someone run the Wget 1.13.4 test suite with Wget compiled with
> MinGW?  If so, could you please share the results?

not that I know.


> I get 13 failures, some of them quite peculiar:
>
>  . test_dir_matches_p fails with "wrong result"
>
>  . 3 tests fail because the ioctl() call that is supposed to switch a
>    socket to blocking mode fails with error code 10038 (which
>    according to my references means "not a socket"); the fd value is 3
>    in all these cases.

I am afraid we use the file descriptor as used by gnulib instead of the
file handle.


>  . 7 tests fail due to wrong timestamp of the file.  I don't
>    understand why would this fail, as the MinGW build is supposed to
>    use the existing library function utimes for that.
>
>  . Test-N-current fails because of one-line mismatch of a single
>    character.
>
>  . 3 FTP tests fail with "550 File not found".
>
> Are these known problems?

No, they are not.


> Btw, is there a way to run only one test?  Running all of them after
> fixing some issue is quite tedious.

Unfortunately the test suite doesn't honor TESTS as it should.  A
workaround is to launch directly the perl script, for example:

$ cd tests
$ perl Test-c.px

Cheers,
Giuseppe