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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 62420@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62420: 29.0.60; fns-tests-collate-strings fails on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:24:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mt41c936.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b66fd2be-4b20-bc02-67d9-15aaf0a66b7a@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:52:45 -0400)

> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:52:45 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> 
> The reason is that en_DE.UTF-8 is actually a valid locale on Cygwin.
> [Cygwin gets its locale information from Windows.  The latter supports
> the RFC 5646 locale "en-DE", which is called "English (Germany)" in the
> "Region" settings.]
> 
> The following trivial patch fixes the problem:
> 
> --- a/test/src/fns-tests.el
> +++ b/test/src/fns-tests.el
> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ fns-tests-collate-strings
>     (should (string-collate-equalp "xyzzy" "XYZZY" nil t))
>      ;; Locale must be valid.
> -  (should-error (string-collate-equalp "xyzzy" "xyzzy" "en_DE.UTF-8")))
> +  (should-error (string-collate-equalp "xyzzy" "xyzzy" "en_XY.UTF-8")))
>    ;; There must be a check for valid codepoints.  (Check not 
> implemented yet)
>   ;  (should-error
> 
> 
> Is this OK for the emacs-29 branch?

Yes, thanks.

> [Note: The test will still fail on current Cygwin after this patch; but
> that's because of a bug in Cygwin, which has been fixed in the
> development sources for Cygwin 3.5.]

Maybe mention this in comments?  Bonus points for making it an
expected failure for Cygwin < 3.5, assuming the version of Cygwin
could be obtained by the test code.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-25 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-24 14:52 bug#62420: 29.0.60; fns-tests-collate-strings fails on Cygwin Ken Brown
2023-03-25 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-25 14:27   ` Ken Brown
2023-03-25 14:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-25 15:02       ` Corwin Brust
2023-03-25 15:14       ` Ken Brown
2023-03-25 15:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-25 16:47           ` Ken Brown

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