Re: finding prove with mingw on cygwin?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:32:43 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
> 
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 08:14:33PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 08:42:18PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > >  And if not, does the
> > > Strawberry Perl's bin/ subdirectory appear on your PATH?
> > 
> > I think so, there is:
> > Path:   C:\cygwin\bin
> >   ......
> > C:\Strawberry\c\bin
> > C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin
> > C:\Strawberry\perl\bin
> >   ......
> > 
> > I will check what a ls on those directories gives, to check if prove is
> > actually there.
> 
> I have checked, there is indeed prove.bat in
> /cygdrive/c/Strawberry/perl/bin
> 
> Yet it is not found.  Could be because of the .bat, and it could make
> sense, as it is not clear to me that cygwin bash.exe can interpret .bat
> files.

I'm now confused as to what port of Texinfo are you building and
testing.  If it's a Cygwin build of Texinfo, then Strawberry Perl
should not be used; you should use a Cygwin port of Perl instead.  And
'prove' should not be a batch file in a Cygwin Perl, it should be a
Perl script named just "prove", as it is on any Unix system.

Indeed, I don't believe Cygwin supports batch file execution, except
via the likes of "cmd /c foo.bat".