Re: Cygwin patches from Charles

[cwilson]

[about non-deterministic, occaisional failures running the test suite on 
cygwin]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Hmm.  I'm none the wiser, as you suspected :-(  Perhaps the testsuite is
> running an older installed libtool if the current one is not yet built, or
> something similar?
>
> I certainly have only very recent (several weeks at the most) old libtools
> installed on my machines, and I haven't seen these failures for a long 
> time.
>
> If you come up with a reliable recipe for forcing these errors, I'm really
> keen to get to the bottom of the matter.

I think this is an ash problem.  I've noticed that if I replace 
/usr/bin/ash.exe with a copy of bash, these problems **seem** to go 
away.  Of course, everything runs slower, because ash IS 
lean-n-mean...but at least it runs _correctly_.

I haven't tried just configuring with SHELL=bash, tho, but I imagine it 
would also solve^W workaround the problem.

--
Chuck