From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 01:10:40 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: msginit: Add comment about test failure on native Windows.
X-Git-Tag: v0.20~204
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81b62131705c22caa90f0e4764fcb8b3968cd90a;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

msginit: Add comment about test failure on native Windows.

* gettext-tools/tests/msginit-3: Add comment.
---

diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/msginit-3 b/gettext-tools/tests/msginit-3
index 4f6fcd49f..1758ad516 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/msginit-3
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/msginit-3
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 . "${srcdir=.}/init.sh"; path_prepend_ . ../src
 
 # Test various msginit options.
+
+# This test fails on mingw, because it relies on the 'project-id' script,
+# which is a shell script (for maintainability) and there is no simple way
+# to execute shell scripts in a native Windows environment.
+# People who need this functionality should use a Cygwin environment, not
+# a native Windows environment.
+
 cat <<\EOF > mi-test3.pot
 # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
 # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER