Re: [Bug-wget] Fixing Test-k for Cygwin (and hopefully Windows)

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Friday 11 December 2015 14:43:32 Gisle Vanem wrote:
> > Test-k fails on Cygwin with LC_ALL=C (which is the default for 'make
> > check').
> > 
> > With this patch the test works on CygWin and on Linux.
> > 
> > Here is a patch that *should* fix it also for 'plain' MS Windows.
> > Could anyone test this on Windows (without CygWin) ?
> 
> From perl.exe -d -d Test-k.px:
> 
> main::(Test-k.px:10):   my $osname = $^O;
> 
> SetConsoleMode failed, LastError=|6| at
> f:/util/StrawberryPerl/perl/vendor/lib/Term/ReadKey.pm line 309. at
> f:/util/StrawberryPerl/perl/vendor/lib/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm line 1581.
> readline::readline("  DB<1> ") called at
> f:/util/StrawberryPerl/perl/vendor/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 11
> Term::ReadLine::Perl::readline(Term::ReadLine::Perl=ARRAY(0xc2a6ec), " 
> DB<1> ") called at F:/util/StrawberryPer l/perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 7284
>         DB::readline("  DB<1> ") called at
> F:/util/StrawberryPerl/perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 1831
> DB::_DB__read_next_cmd(undef) called at
> F:/util/StrawberryPerl/perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 2744 DB::DB called at
> Test-k.px line 10
>   DB<1> r
> OS=MSWin32
> Running test Test-k
> Cannot fork at Test-k.px line 90.
>  at WgetTests.pm line 410.
>         WgetTest::_fork_and_launch_server(HTTPTest=HASH(0x33e634c)) called
> at WgetTests.pm line 111 WgetTest::run(HTTPTest=HASH(0x33e634c)) called at
> Test-k.px line 90
> 
> This has never work outside *nix or Cygwin I think.

Thanks for testing, Gisle !

That means the perl test suite is broken on Windows - thus no test suite at 
all on Windows !? Perl is not able to fork on Windows ?

Can anyone confirm that ?

Regards, Tim