At 02:44 AM 10/23/2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: >On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:03:02PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >> >Hmm... I haven't looked at the new test stuff, but I wonder how it's >> >going to deal with the testshm* tests, since those tests depend on >> >fork() and exec() to work. >> >> As well as they did before... >> >> ... that is, not at all. > >How do you mean that they don't work? Anonymous shared memory is not >currently supported on systems that lack sufficient process inheritance >mechanisms (ie. fork() and exec()).
I mean, the tests couldn't work (couldn't compile for that matter.) So we simply walked around those tests. >> We had a specific sublist of non-win32 modules that was just dropped >> when we filtered the makefile for win32. > >I'm confused as to what you mean by this. From makefile.in... NONPORTABLE = \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ PROGRAMS = \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ TARGETS = $(PROGRAMS) $(NONPORTABLE) on win32 we just changed the TARGETS line to TARGETS = $(PROGRAMS) when transforming Makefile.in to Makefile.