From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:20:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/15] Modernize the build system
Message-ID: <Zxsqr3X4FAWfy0HP@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <787ef076-ba72-4a0d-bfd9-1f79de4f4039@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 06:34:24PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> On 24/10/2024 08:19, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> Having a quick squint at the failure, it '# failed 1 among 397 test(s)'
> which was 'not ok 391 - correct handling of backslashes', which is the
> only test marked with a '!CYGWIN' prerequisite! ;) So it seems that I
> am doing something wrong, which results in the prerequisite not being
> set.

The CYGWIN prerequisite is set depending on whether or not `uname -s`
contains "*CYGWIN*". Does your system maybe pick up the wrong uname(1)
binary somehow?

> I haven't debugged that yet, but I wanted to note the above improvement
> having 'fixed' my python installation. (It doesn't look good for the
> TEST package! :) ).

Great, happy to hear that this is resolved now.

Patrick