Testing GCC on Cygwin made substantially easier [was Re: dragonegg in FSF gcc?]

[Laurynas Biveinis]

2010/4/13 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
>  Until I find time to do a more major rewrite, anyone who wants to do testing
> on Cygwin could do worse than apply the sticking-plaster patch that I posted at:
>
>  http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg04677.html
>
> and build themselves a locally modified version of the Cygwin DLL that will
> happily run make check at significant -j levels (I think I tried 12 at most;
> I've only got a dual-core cpu so it wasn't exactly efficient, but it proved
> that the patch holds up under substantial load).

I do not test on Cygwin these days, but previously I did and I wish I
knew this back then. I have added a note to
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Testing_GCC . Thanks for the info!

-- 
Laurynas