testsuite under wine

[Thomas Koenig]

On 17.12.22 01:26, NightStrike wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:44 AM Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 16.12.22 03:20, NightStrike via Fortran wrote:
>>
>>> When I run the testsuite under wine, I'm getting a lot of ANSI escape
>>> sequences.  We had fixed this long ago, but it seems to be back.  Any
>>> idea what I should change in my configuration to have this not happen?
>>
>> This should probably be fixed properly in some *.exp file, but you can
>> try setting the GCC_COLORS environment variable to an empty string
>> before running the test.
> 
> That didn't help.  It looks like this is always escape 25h to start
> the output and 25l to end it, which I think is turning the cursor on
> and off (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code).  I
> apparently fixed this previously by building wine with
> --without-curses
> (https://www.mail-archive.com/gcc@gcc.gnu.org/msg86366.html), but that
> option to wine was removed.  Is there a way to hack this on the Deja
> side to ignore the escapes?  Or to tell it to run in a way that makes
> wine not emit them?

Truth is, I don't know.

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knowledgeable people can be found :-)