GNU bug report logs - #62420
29.0.60; fns-tests-collate-strings fails on Cygwin

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 62420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 62420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62420: 29.0.60; fns-tests-collate-strings fails on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:49:35 +0300

> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:14:57 -0400
> Cc: 62420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> 
> > What's the value of operating-system-release return in a Cygwin build?
> 
> Perfect!  It's "3.4.6-1.x86_64".  I should be able to use that. 
> Interestingly, that variable was made obsolete a couple years ago in 
> commit d88e12aa19c4.

We can un-obsolete it if Cygwin asks nicely ;-)

There's also the method used in report-emacs-bug--os-description,
maybe we could refactor it into a public function.
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