[Gnu-arch-users] Make test failure on Cygwin

[John Meinel]

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There is a problem with make test for
hackerlab/tests/fs-tests/unit-file-names.sh

Basically, '/bin/sh' on cygwin is ASH, not BASH. In unit-filenames-sh
you do comparisons against "~/...". It turns out that at least on cygwin
ash doesn't expand ~/. It does expand "$HOME/" though. Also, /bin/bash
does expand "~/".

Is there a specific reason to use "~/", or should I change everything
over to "$HOME/"?

There is another problem in unit-unidata.sh
,tmp is created from sed, and ,tmp2 is created from ,/unit-unidata

Well, at least on my system, sed generates unix-style endings, but
unit-unidata generates dos-style endings.

If I add dos2unix ,tmp2, then the comparison works. I'm not sure if
there is a better way that involves changing unit-unidata.c, or
something like that.

There are also problems with the tests in tla/tests because /bin/sh
doesn't support the $(($A + 1)) syntax. So instead of getting "Test 1"
"Test 2", you get "Test 1", "Test 1 + 1", etc.

Another problem, which I don't know the fix for is "test-import.sh" It
fails because of "import: tree has no patch log for version"
I'm not sure why. archive-setup, archive-mirror fail for the same reason.

I'm almost to the point where rbp's cygwin port compiles and runs with
path compression, and caching.

Thanks,
John
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