I'm sorry, I was going through the bug queue and found this patch - I tried to apply it and it unfortunately no longer applies. I'm going to reject this ticket - if this is still any issue for with a recent version of rakudo, please open a new ticket.
Thanks. On Sun Jun 26 10:47:06 2011, ronaldxs wrote: > Under Linux if you are in the rakudo build directory and type make > t/spec/S02-builtin_data_types/anon_block.t (or make followed by the > name of any test file) the test file is run with the right configuration > and command line parameters to make "#? skip" and "#? todo" directives > etc behave properly. This currently does not seem to work on Windows. > It doesn't work for me and after a discussion on IRC with JimmyZ, see > http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2011-06-26#i_4005711, it became clear it > didn't work for him on Windows either. > > I have attached a patch that fixes the problem to the point of having > such a command line request usable under windows. The solution is > somewhat lacking in that it doesn't allow the test file names provided > to make to have the '\' back slash separators that are native to Windows > but includes a comment in the make file to "document around" the issue. > I hope and believe that the patch makes the situation better than it is > now. The patch takes out the translation of \* to \\* that, I believe, > was intended to work around this at one point but after testing with > gmake and strawberry Perl as well as mingw32-make and ActiveState Perl > believe that the build and install work properly without that > translation and with this patch. > > Hope this helps, > Ron Schmidt -- Will "Coke" Coleda
