Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:42:15PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:38:29 -0400
>> From: Bill Hoffman
>> 
>> >>  /* 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. 
>
>As a matter of fact, configure already computes the right value for
>PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR, it just calls it PATH_SEPARATOR.  I will try to
>come up with a suitable patch to use that value directly.

For the record, Eli, I REALLY appreciate the time and attention you're
giving this matter.

cgf