Re: HEAD: NEWS rewrite and update

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Charles,

Thanks for the feedback!

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:03:19PM CET:
> 
> Can't help there; my only win32 system is a laptop that travels with me. 
> However, I ran the HEAD testsuite about two weeks ago -- before the 
> recent mdemo fixes. Here are my results:
> 
> (1) Old tests:
>     all mdemo/mdemo2 stuff. I'm betting that these four failures have
>     been fixed now.

Not yet.  I tested though that the proposed fixes eliminate those
failures.

> (2) New tests:
>     13 - FC -- cygwin's gcc is 3.4.4, so it has g77 but not gfortran.
>     14 - Java -- I think cygwin's gcc has gcj, but I've never used it
>          at all, and have no idea if it even works for HelloWorld.java.
>     19 - static linking flags for programs
>     46 - build tree relpaths
>     48 - Run tests with low max_cmd_len: 20070205 predates a lot of
>          Ralf's recent max_cmd_len fixes.
> 
> So, given the recent fixes, cygwin's testsuite compliance on HEAD looks 
> pretty good.  I'll rebuild with latest HEAD and re-run soon.

Please also send tests/testsuite.log (after or before the re-run, both
are interesting).  It has more details.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Ralf