Re: make 3.81rc1 / MSYS

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:23:03 -0500
> > Cc: David Ergo <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> >    address@hidden, address@hidden
> > From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> >
> >   >> int main()
> >   >> {
> >   >> char resolved_path[PATH_MAX];
> >   >> if (realpath("///", resolved_path) && (strcmp(resolved_path, 
> > "/") == 0)) {
> >   >> return 0;
> >   >> } else {
> >   >> return 1;
> >   >> }
> >   >> }
> >
> >   ez> Paul, this is still not fixed.  How about adding the above test to
> >   ez> configure?
> >
> > Can't do it: this will cause cross-compilation to break.
>
> Then perhaps the test that fails if realpath doesn't convert /// to /
> should be rewritten or not run under MSYS.

MSYS converts beginning // to / but beginning /// to //.  But if the 
path only contains slashes I should remove all of them but one.  I'll 
take a look at MSYS for this; but I'm not promising anything soon.

Earnie Boyd

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