On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:40 PM, James E Keenan wrote (in reply to Coke's
clean smoke test from Win7):
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It seems we have a much greater variance in the files which are
failing in different smoke reports on Windows than we get in any
other OS.
Do you have any ideas as to what enabled us to get a PASS on this
box as distinct from other Windows boxes?
I mis-read the question, but I think my mistaken reply is still worth
posting:
Win32 smoke reports vary so widely because of...
different OSes, filesystems, compilers, and compiling environments:
MSVC vs CygWin vs MinGW
Strawberry_Perl vs ActivePerl
Win2k vs WinXP vs Vista vs Win7
FAT vs NTFS
For example, CygWin and MinGW use different "host" environments, and
they both use a different `make` and link to a different C runtime
than MSVC.
Unicode (and probably also IPv6) support varies both by filesystem and
by OS version.
I think it is manageable long-term; it certainly *needs* to be
managed, due to the high number of Win32 users in the world.
We just took our eyes off the ball for too long.
Several of the Win32 bugs I am pursuing simply boil down to "take this
test that is already SKIPped in some scenario, and also skip it on
Win32 when in FOO environment".
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Hope this helps,
Bruce Gray (Util)
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