Re: glob() problem with double '//' in path

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:23:09 -0500
> From: Kris Warkentin <address@hidden>
> 
> I notice that when you build make with msdev studio, any paths that come 
> into glob() looking like, for example ../../rom//*.c, do not get 
> expanded properly.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be a problem with a cygwin or other unix built 
> make.  I hacked a really stupid and ugly fix (we were supposed to go 
> beta today...) but I'm sure that there is probably a better way to do 
> it.  Ideally, our makefile structure wouldn't be passing // in but it's 
> not a perfect world and this hack was easier to do in the short term.

It is a known issue with Windows system calls and API functions: they
barf on multiple consecutive slashes.  A better way is to fix this in
the underlying library, but that's impossible to do in a native
Windows port (Cygwin and DJGPP do that, but then they own the
library).

It's probably best to condition the patch in WINDOWS32, or perhaps
invent a function e.g. normalize_file_name that would be a no-op on
all platforms except Windows and hide its implementation on a
Windows-specific file.