I'm closing this as a misunderstanding; I think any real errors here are covered adequately by bug #15718.

BTW, if someone has any ideas on how to make the test suite more portable, so it doesn't rely on having a UNIX shell, I'm interested.  But, only if it can be done in a fairly clean manner.

I cannot reproduce these problems with a MinGW build of native Windows port of Make 3.81beta4.

This could be a shell issue or an echo issue: the $$ construct is interpreted by the shell, and of course the stock Windows shell cmd.exe doesn't do what a Unixy shell does.

I have a native Windows port of zsh installed, and a GnuWin32 port of echo.exe from Coreutils.  With these two, both example Makefiles you posted to reproduce the problem work as expected (as the Cygwin build works for you).  If I rename sh.exe to something else, the test indeed doesn't work, but I wouldn't expect it to, since $$ is intended for a Unixy shell.

Admittedly, my make-3.81beta4 is patched to fix the problems discovered since the last pretest.  So perhaps try to build the current CVS version and see if the problem goes away.  If not, I'd suspect some incompatibility between Make and your shell/echo programs.

P.S.  Please don't assume that people who worfk on the Windows port don't run the test suite.  I ran the entire test suite when I built the last beta, and everything worked as expected.

Hi~

My flatform is Windows 2000 Professional and I build GNU make 3.81 beta4 using Visual C++ .NET 2003 myself. The native Win32 build of GNU make fails the 7th test in make-3.81beta4\tests\scripts\features\export. To make the test case minimal, I'd like to give the sample Makefile that demonstrates the bug here:

--- BEGIN ---

foo = f-ok
bar = b-ok

FOO = foo
F = f

BAR = bar
B = b

export $(FOO)
export $(B)ar

all:
@echo foo=$(foo) bar=$(bar)
@echo foo=$$foo bar=$$bar

--- END ---

When use Cygwin build of make 3.81 beta4, I get what I expect:

C:\Temp>cygwin-make
foo=f-ok bar=b-ok
foo=f-ok bar=b-ok

However, when use Win32 build, I get the following:

C:\Temp>win32-make
foo=f-ok bar=b-ok
foo= bar=

I'm sure the Win32 porters of GNU make never try the GNU make test suit themselves since the test driver has some serious compatibility issues on Win32. But I do have a Win32 port of this test suit, so I can find Win32-specific bugs very easily. :=)

Cheers,
Agent