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| -rw-r--r-- | gettext-tools/tests/ChangeLog | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | gettext-tools/tests/msgexec-4 | 13 |
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diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/ChangeLog b/gettext-tools/tests/ChangeLog index e113d78..268ceea 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/tests/ChangeLog +++ b/gettext-tools/tests/ChangeLog @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ * msgexec-1: Filter out msgexec's warning about locale charset. * msgexec-2: Likewise. - * msgexec-4: Likewise. + * msgexec-4: Likewise. Explain why this test fails on mingw. 2009-08-10 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/msgexec-4 b/gettext-tools/tests/msgexec-4 index e80bcbe..9683b40 100755 --- a/gettext-tools/tests/msgexec-4 +++ b/gettext-tools/tests/msgexec-4 @@ -2,6 +2,19 @@ # Test msgexec on a PO file with contexts. +# This test fails on mingw (in a Cygwin environment), due to the combination +# of two reasons: +# 1. The value of the environment variable MSGEXEC_MSGCTXT is stored +# in UTF-8 encoding (i.e. the PO file's encoding); it should be stored +# in the GetACP() encoding instead. This problem is inherent in msgexec, +# and msgexec warns about it - but in this test, we filter the warnings +# away. +# 2. The child process is Cygwin's sh.exe, and is affected by a Cygwin bug: +# the values returned by getenv() in the child process, when the parent +# process is a mingw program, are in the GetOEMCP() encoding (should be +# in the GetACP() encoding). This has been reported at +# <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00430.html>. + tmpfiles="" trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15 |