The GNU platform testers reported a number of test errors on
different systems; try to address them.
* tests/thelp.pl: A number of tests timed out with a 4-second
timeout. Increase the default timeout to 10 seconds.
* tests/run_make_tests.pl: Executing directories on cygwin behaves
differently in Perl than make so skip these tests there.
* tests/scripts/options/symlinks: Check for the symlink feature
in make, rather than whether the system supports them.
* tests/scripts/features/implicit_search: On some systems "false"
exits with a different exit code. Use the helper instead.
* tests/scripts/features/loadapi: Ditto.
* tests/scripts/features/output-sync: Sleep before make -f bar in
the first test as well as the second one.
* tests/scripts/features/exec: Skip on cygwin, which seems to
be "UNIX" but where scripts don't run normally.
* tests/scripts/misc/fopen-fail: Skip on cygwin, where make
eventually exits with exit code 0 and no error messages.
Keep a count of bytes read rather than comparing pointers since the
variable_buffer might get reallocated.
Bug and patch by Ken Tossell <ken@tossell.net>
Regression tests by Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net>
Tweaked by Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
* src/function.c (func_file): Use bytes read rather than a pointer.
* tests/scripts/functions/file: Provide various tests for reading
empty files, files with/without newlines, and large files.
* tests/thelp.pl: Rename from tests/jhelp.pl.
(op): Use names instead of options for the operations.
(op): Add new operations for sleep, mkdir, and rm.
(op): Enhance wait to time out
* tests/run_make_tests.pl: Add a new #HELPER# replacement
(subst_make_string): Use fully-qualified path to thelp.pl
* tests/scripts/features/parallelism: Update to use thelp.pl
and the new named operations. Use thelp.pl sleep instead of
system-specific sleep commands.
* tests/scripts/features/output-sync: Update to use thelp.pl
instead of complex shell scripts.
* Makefile.am: Distribute tests/thelp.pl instead of tests/jhelp.pl
