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30.0.50; em-extpipe-test-14 fails on MS-Windows

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 71446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71446: 30.0.50; em-extpipe-test-14 fails on MS-Windows
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:21:43 +0300

> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:47:46 -0700
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
> 
> On 6/15/2024 2:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > So 'tac' still fails.  But the problem seems to be that running the
> > tests invokes MSYS tac.exe; if I move it out of the way (which then
> > invokes the native MinGW port of 'tac'), the test passes.  So I think
> > we can safely close this bug now.
> 
> Thanks. I wonder if there's something we could do here to support the 
> MSYS tac.exe, but I'm not sure what that would be.

The MSYS tac works.  It just somehow fails to read from redirected
file in this specific case, when invoked outside of MSYS Bash.  Hmm...

Ahh, found the problem: for some reason this version of 'tac' needs
Unix EOLs in the file.  So I have now fixed the test.

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