Re: Test D03 hang under cygwin 1.7

[Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:56:26 +0000
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:07:24 -0500
>> Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
>> > Under the soon-to-be-released Cygwin 1.7, I downloaded the latest CVS
>> > sources and ran a build from scratch.  I'm getting a test hang in D03:
>>
>> This is process substitution again.  This is problematic under Cygwin:
>> sometimes one of the two forms works, sometimes another, even though both
>> are notionally present and zsh is simply using documented behaviour that
>> works on other systems.  (The real problem, of course, is that process
>> handling is intrinsically horrific in Cygwin.)
>>
>> I don't think we can do much more than skip the test and put a warning
>> about related features in the manual.  We might be able to add an option to
>> pick the support we use (named pipes or device files) but that's probably
>> only of use to the sort of people who could in any case hack the
>> configuration by hand.
>
> ... in fact, could you try #define'ing PATH_DEV_FD in config.h (it's turned
> off by a special test in configure) and see if that works with the new
> version of Cygwin?  We can always reverse the configured default when that
> comes out.

Yes, that enables D03 to pass.  Thank you!

  - Vin