Re: Fix for HAVE_DOS_PATHS build on cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:08:16 -0400
> From: "William A. Hoffman" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> The only thing sh_chars_dos seems to add is * and %.   If you have a
> \* or \%  So the question is what should happen with :
> 
> \foo\*
> and 
> \foo\%
> 
> Should they be \foo* and \foo%  (I think that is what would happen now.)
> 
> Or should they be \foo\* and \foo\% which is what would happen if dos chars
> were included with sh chars in the code.
> 
> It seems valid to have a directory name % on dos, but not *
> 
> C:\Hoffman\My Builds\CMakeDev\Tests\COnly\b>dir ..\b\%
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 78BB-7820
> 
>  Directory of C:\Hoffman\My Builds\CMakeDev\Tests\COnly\b\%
> 
> The * can not be a directory name so it should not be included.

The only reasonable way to test this is by crafting several
_practical_ examples of using these characters in commands, and then
testing these commands with and without the HAVE_DOS_PATHS patch.
Believe me, Make's code in job.c is so complicated (and on top of that
recursively invokes itself) that I don't even dare reasoning about its
intricacies without stepping with a debugger through the code while
Make handles a specific command whose semantics is well understood.

So please, if you can afford that, try to throw together a few
real-life examples, and run them.  And then let's talk about the
results, if you see something unexpected.