Re: A patch for native PARI/GP build on Windows (Mingw+Msys)

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Vasili Burdo wrote:
> It includes:
> - Configuration changes to recognize Mingw build.
> - Native hires plotting for Windows.
> - Native support of Windows console including terminal size and colors.
> - All tests are passed for gp-syn. For gp-sta, tests involving install()  
> fail.
>
> This patch is based on current PARI SVN.
> Comments and suggestions are VERY welcome.

This looks fine except for this:

> Index: src/test/dotest
> ===================================================================
> --- src/test/dotest	(revision 12034)
> +++ src/test/dotest	(working copy)
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
>             gp=$execdir/gp-$suf;;
>      esac
>      (cat $file_in; echo 'print("Total time spent: ",gettime);') | $gp -q --test  > $file_test 2>&1
> -    diff -c $file_out $file_test > $file_diff
> +    diff -cwb $file_out $file_test > $file_diff
>      pat=`grep "^[-+!] " $file_diff | grep -v "Total time"`
>      time=`${tail}1 $file_test | sed -n 's,.*Total time spent: \(.*\),\1,p'`
>      if test -n "$time"; then

I suppose -wb is required to deal with CR/LF vs LF issue ?
Please change it so that -wb is only added for windows build.
Without that, we will miss some white-space changes in the output even
when running the tests on Linux.

Cheers,
Bill.