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#74805
30.0.92; Trying to build scratch/igc on Cygwin
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Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:56:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 30.0.92
Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, kbrown <at> cornell.edu,
> 74805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:06:41 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:05:58 -0800
> >>
> >> Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:
> >>
> >> > I've made a first attempt to port mps to Cygwin. If anyone else is
> >> > interested in seeing this or helping, you can find my work at
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/kbrow1i/mps-cygwin
> >> >
> >> > This is a fork of the mps git repo with two commits on top.
> >> >
> >> > With the current attempt, I can build the scratch/igc branch, but there
> >> > are many test failures. For example, when I run the process-tests, I
> >> > get 19 failures and 8 skipped tests. But on the master branch I get no
> >> > failures and only 3 skipped.
> >> >
> >> > This probably means that my current attempt to port mps is no good, and
> >> > I have to go back to the drawing board. Before I do that, however, I'd
> >> > like to check and see if test failures on scratch/igc are to be
> >> > expected. Are people testing other platforms seeing this too?
> >>
> >> Do we expect upstream to be amenable to eventually taking these patches?
> >
> > I don't think we've asked them. Maybe Gerd knows?
>
> I haven't done anything like that. I've only submitted some minor Github
> issue when I was playing with MPS, and I've sent them a mail to let them
> know what's going on when I made what I had public here on emacs-devel.
So maybe we should ask them. It could be a factor in our decision
whether we want to fork MPS and maintain our own fork.
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