RFR (M): Enable OpenJDK builds on Windows with MinGW/MSYS

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Jonathan,

you're right, I havn't looked at the tests until now - just wanted to
get the build up and running.

My only concerns so far are the few tests which require a Korn Shell
as I think there's no ksh available for MinGW/Msys.

But I promise to look at it.

By the way, has anybody ever successfully run the tests on Windows
with either MKS or Cygwin?

Regards,
Volker



On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Jonathan Gibbons
<jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> Volker,
>
> This work is very interesting!
>
> Have you looked at what changes might be necessary to any shell tests in the
> langtools/test and jdk/test directories?
>
> Many test shell scripts have a block of code of the form:
>
>
> OS=`uname -s`
> case "$OS" in
>    SunOS | Linux | *BSD | Darwin )
>        NULL=/dev/null
>        PATHSEP=":"
>        FILESEP="/"
>        TMP=/tmp
>        ;;
>    CYGWIN* )
>        NULL=/dev/null
>        PATHSEP=";"
>        FILESEP="/"
>        TMP=/tmp
>        ;;
>    Windows* )
>        NULL=NUL
>        PATHSEP=";"
>        FILESEP="\\"
>        TMP=$TEMP
>        ;;
>    * )
>        echo "Unrecognized system!"
>        exit 1;
>        ;;
> esac
>
>
> What would the equivalent case statement be for minGW/MSYS?
>
> -- Jon