On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 05:12 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 4:46 AM: > > To me this reads as: MinGW and Cygwin's "test -x" are broken. > > Give an example where cygwin's "test -x" is broken. RTEMS users have reported it for both MinGW and for Cygwin. Cf. these are the Cygwin variant: http://rtems.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-users/2007-March/017888.html http://rtems.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-users/2007-March/017898.html And this is the MinGW variant http://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1228 For Cygwin, the OP reported, switching to NTFS instead of FAT32 would have remedied his problem. > MinGW has problems, > but in my experience, cygwin does not. AFAICT from the user reports, the problem is "test -x <foreign executable>" failing. I can supply you with such foreign executables on PM, if you want me to. Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
