[Mono-dev] compiler-tester patch for cygwin environment

[Atsushi Eno]

Hello,

Marek Safar wrote:
> 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).

Atsushi Eno