Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:21:27 +0300
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:29:55 +1000
>
> Are the DJGPP packages stock standard  from Simtel or have you re-built
> them?

Stock versions, for now.  I don't think we've got to the place where
changes in the current CVS should matter.

> The two unit test I can think of that are still on my to do list for Windows
> 2000 are:
>     1) Get make working
>     2) Get rhide working
> Once these two unit tests are done then the other testing that needs to be
> done is:
>     1) See if our own programs that we have written work on 2000 or XP.
>     2) Re-build all of the other standard GNU packages
>     3) Use all of the re-built GNU packages to then build some of the V2TK,
> V2APP packages and see if they work.

Based on previous experience, I'd suggest to also test these aspects:

  - debugging
  - profiling
  - Ctrl-C and Ctrl-BREAK (do they do what you expect or crash?)
  - programs which catch SIGFPE and SIGINT

Basically, go through all the gotchas described in section 3.3 of the
FAQ and see what happens on W2K and XP.

Btw, someone reported a few months ago that Emacs abruptly exits on NT
if you press and hold an arrow key right after typing "emacs RET" from
the command line (see the thread "Re: Emacs crashes with fast arrow
keys").  It would be nice if someone could see if the same happens on
W2K and XP.

>     1) Make 3.791:
>                     a) shells out to using command.com via spawnvpe function
> in job.c approx line 1200 (+/- 30 lines due to debugging ) to execute
> "command.com /C if not exist glob\nul md glob" then the command.com displays
> an errror 183, but if I use cmd.exe then I do not get the error.
>                         I need to check at work on NT 4.0 if the same
> problem exists and if it does then see if I can produce a patch for job.c so
> under Windows NT make uses cmd.exe instead of command.com.

I think this is not the right fix (I can't be sure it is possible to
invoke cmd.exe on any given system).  I think we should simply
redirect the error message to /dev/nul, or maybe find another way of
testing if a directory exists.