cleanup

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/java/allTests.py b/java/allTests.py
index 9ad0698ab8a..f0769378a9d 100755
--- a/java/allTests.py
+++ b/java/allTests.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ else:
     raise "can't find toplevel directory!"
 
 #
-# List of all tests.
+# List of all basic tests.
 #
 tests = [ \
     "Ice/operations", \
@@ -33,11 +33,21 @@ tests = [ \
     "Freeze/cursor", \
     "Freeze/dbmap", \
     "Freeze/complex", \
-    "Glacier/starter", \
     ]
 
 #
-# The user can supply on the command line a subset of tests to run.
+# Certain tests only work on Linux.
+#
+# The substring on sys.platform is required because some cygwin
+# versions return "cygwin_nt-4.01".
+#
+if sys.platform != "win32" and sys.platform[:6] != "cygwin":
+    tests += [ \
+        "Glacier/starter", \
+        ]
+
+#
+# The user can supply a subset of tests on the command line.
 #
 if sys.argv[1:]:
     print "limiting tests"