# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
# Date 1641640098 -3600
# Node ID e9895f8335c56ca0531cbc15c4c6725576bb1d8c
# Parent  c98873eb28522445d0ee1a1d0bd4ad904400a0be
GitHub-CI: Simplify running the test suite on Windows.

* .github/workflows/make.yaml (windows): Override `makeinfo_program` in
octaverc. Use bash to run test suite.

diff -r c98873eb2852 -r e9895f8335c5 .github/workflows/make.yaml
--- a/.github/workflows/make.yaml	Fri Jan 07 11:50:07 2022 +0100
+++ b/.github/workflows/make.yaml	Sat Jan 08 12:08:18 2022 +0100
@@ -472,8 +472,10 @@
 
       - name: install
         # Install Octave
+
         # Relocation issues with the graphicsmagick++ libraries on mingw require
         # installing Octave before running the test suite.
+        # See: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/9931
         run: make -C ./.build install V=1
 
       - name: check
@@ -487,24 +489,12 @@
         continue-on-error: true
         timeout-minutes: 60
 
-        # We cannot run "make check" in the MSYS2 shell because it will fail with backslash as a file separator.
-        # Instead, use the CMD shell and set up the environment to pick up what we just built.
-        shell: cmd
-        env:
-          MSYS_PATH: C:\msys64\${{ matrix.mingw-prefix }}\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin
-          MSYSTEM: ${{ matrix.msystem }}
-          TERM: cygwin
-          GNUTERM: wxt
-          GS: gs.exe
+        # Perl scripts cannot be run as executables on Windows (no shebang mechanism).
+        # We need to wrap them by calling the perl executable explicitly.
 
-        # Also, install .bat file for "makeinfo" so that it can be called from that shell.
         run: |
-          set PATH=%MSYS_PATH%;%PATH%
-          echo @echo off > C:/msys64/usr/bin/makeinfo.bat
-          echo %%~d0 >> C:/msys64/usr/bin/makeinfo.bat
-          echo cd "%%~dp0" >> C:/msys64/usr/bin/makeinfo.bat
-          echo perl "%%~n0" %%* >> C:/msys64/usr/bin/makeinfo.bat
-          rem Start Octave and run test suite
+          echo 'makeinfo_program (sprintf ("%s && cd %s/../usr/bin && perl makeinfo", OCTAVE_HOME ()(1:2), OCTAVE_HOME ()));' \
+            >> "${MINGW_PREFIX}/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc"
           octave --eval "__run_test_suite__"
 
       - name: display test log