Re: cygwin on win98

----- Original Message -----
From: H.Merijn Brand <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:51 am
Subject: 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.

I already did this, here on and p5p. I didn't see the need to do so in 
this followup. (That, and I don't remember, I'd have to check my old 
email =-)

> 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

Nope. I'll give this a shot. I just tried to get the latest snapshots 
from sourceforge when I realized they aren't there yet. ^_^. I'll grab 
them out of the email and give this a shot this evening.