Re: cygwin on win98

On Mon 27 Aug 2001 14:34, "Will Coleda" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Remember my previous 'make distclean' thread? When I started this 
> conversation, I was trying to get things up and running on cygwin, 
> which appears to take FOREVER on make distclean, presumably because of 
> all the process spawning. The timing seems quite reasonable on other 
> platforms. (words cannot convey how hideously slow it was)
> 
> In other news, I haven't heard any response back on my failure on 
> win98. I presume I should take matters into my own hands and see if I 
> can at least work around the show stopping test?

At least identify which test is stopping you.

Have you implemented Michael's patch for TTY, included in the latest snapshots?

	$ENV{PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST} = 1;

just somewhere in the start of mktest.pl

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