[Mono-dev] compiler-tester patch for cygwin environment
Marek Safar
marek.safar at seznam.cz
Mon Apr 3 14:14:03 EDT 2006
Hello,
>>>>> On running compiler-tester, cygwin/bash command line expands the
>>>>> argument file wildcard (test-*.cs etc.) to a full-length argument
>>>>> list. Thus compiler-tester never runs fine on cygwin.
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a patch to avoid this problem by adding extra "--pattern:"
>>>>> prefix onto the wildcard argument.
>>>>>
>>>>> It still have to modify mono executable name (since Windows native
>>>>> Process.Start() never runs shell scripts) but it is not safe, so
>>>>> for now I didn't include such hacky change.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it looks good please tell me and I'll commit the patch.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I filled bug for this some time ago and Zoltan fixed it but latter some
>>>> change brought it back.
>>>> See http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73763
>>>>
>>>> So, I think a fix is still possible.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Oh, thanks for the info. Hmm, so, should we wait for that bug got
>>> fixed? I think we could just fix this problem by my tiny patch
>>> without harm.
>>>
>>>
>> I would like to know Zoltan's opinion about this. Any idea what could cause this
>> regression ?
>>
>
> ok, I'd follow you guys' decision (I can always keep the patch locally).
>
No reply, so please commit.
Marek
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