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Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin
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Christopher Faylor |
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Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:50:49 -0400 |
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:42:53PM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:38:29 -0400
>> From: Bill Hoffman <address@hidden>
>>
>> >> /* Handle other OSs. */
>> >>! #if defined(HAVE_DOS_PATHS) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
>> >> # define PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR ';'
>> >> #elif defined(VMS)
>> >> # define PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR ','
>> >
>> >This is probably too big a change for this particular problem (and maybe
>> >it's already been discussed to death) but I don't see why this setting
>> >couldn't be in configure.in, too. Then MinGW could set
>> >PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR to ';', VMS could set it to ',' (shouldn't that be
>> >'.'?), and Cygwin and every other "UNIX system" could just use the default.
>>
>> Sure, this seems to produce the correct behavior. If you want
>> to make it a configure.in thing, then provide a patch. I was just going
>> along with the existing style of the code in this case.
>
>The Cygwin build could (and probably should) use configure.in, but the
>MinGW and MSVC ports don't use the configure script to build
>themselves, and so the native builds cannot set PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR
>there.
Whatever the mechanism, it seems like this could easily be made part of
config.h. Wouldn't just adding it to configh.dos suffice?
cgf
- Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Bill Hoffman, 2006/08/16
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/16
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Bill Hoffman, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Bill Hoffman, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin,
Christopher Faylor <=
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Earnie Boyd, 2006/08/18
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Earnie Boyd, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/17
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Earnie Boyd, 2006/08/18
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, William A. Hoffman, 2006/08/18
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Earnie Boyd, 2006/08/19
- Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2006/08/17