bug#74805: 30.0.92; Trying to build scratch/igc on Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  kbrown@cornell.edu,
>   74805@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:06:41 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:05:58 -0800
> >> 
> >> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I've made a first attempt to port mps to Cygwin.  If anyone else is
> >> > interested in seeing this or helping, you can find my work at
> >> >
> >> >    https://github.com/kbrow1i/mps-cygwin
> >> >
> >> > This is a fork of the mps git repo with two commits on top.
> >> >
> >> > With the current attempt, I can build the scratch/igc branch, but there
> >> > are many test failures.  For example, when I run the process-tests, I
> >> > get 19 failures and 8 skipped tests.  But on the master branch I get no
> >> > failures and only 3 skipped.
> >> >
> >> > This probably means that my current attempt to port mps is no good, and
> >> > I have to go back to the drawing board.  Before I do that, however, I'd
> >> > like to check and see if test failures on scratch/igc are to be
> >> > expected.  Are people testing other platforms seeing this too?
> >> 
> >> Do we expect upstream to be amenable to eventually taking these patches?
> >
> > I don't think we've asked them.  Maybe Gerd knows?
> 
> I haven't done anything like that. I've only submitted some minor Github
> issue when I was playing with MPS, and I've sent them a mail to let them
> know what's going on when I made what I had public here on emacs-devel.

So maybe we should ask them.  It could be a factor in our decision
whether we want to fork MPS and maintain our own fork.