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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:30:09 +0200
From: waterlan <waterlan@xs4all.nl>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port
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Chris J. Breisch schreef op 2014-04-23 17:18:
> Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>> 
>> Check-0.9.12 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with 
>> --prefix=/usr.
>> 
>> "make check" on check reports all tests passed, despite what appear to
>> be some failures. The CHANGELOG says that this version should pass all
>> tests on Cygwin. I've just subscribed to the mailing list and will 
>> check
>> on whether these failures can be ignored or not. Still, it definitely
>> appears to work better than the version we have now, which only passes 
>> 1
>> test in the test suite.
> 
> Just to follow-up on this a bit more.
> 
> I misunderstood the results from check's check. I should learn just to
> trust the summary results. The tests passed.
>> 
>> Libpipeline-1.3.0 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with
>> --prefix=/usr.
>> 
>> Oddly a "make check" for libpipeline-1.3.0 doesn't appear to actually 
>> do
>> anything. This was not the case for earlier versions of libpipeline.
>> Well, that's one way of getting rid of the test failures, I guess.
>> 
> 
> I must have done something wrong in the build before I sent this.
> Re-building libpipeline does cause 'make check' to execute the tests.
> I got one failure. I've talked to the owner of the project, and he's
> sent me a patch that does eliminate the failure. So I now have a
> libpipeline where all tests pass under Cygwin.

Hi Chris,

Would you like to send the patch to me?


> I still get the shared library warnings when building man-db. I
> haven't yet investigated that.

regards,

-- 
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/

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