Re: Windows patches for the next release

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 07:52:02PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:08:32 -0400
>> 
>> On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 18:15 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > I suggest another RC, I think the changes since the last one are
>> > non-trivial.
>> 
>> OK, I created a new RC, available now on make-alpha.
>
>Thanks.  It still builds fine on Windows using MinGW GCC.
>
>> I don't personally plan to make any more changes, so as soon as you feel
>> you're happy with the Windows support I will release.
>
>Here's the patch for $abspath that should fix the Cygwin build.  Would
>Cygwin people please test it, and in particular see if the related
>failures in the test suite are gone?  I don't have a Cygwin
>environment to even compile with Cygwin.
>
>I'd especially appreciate if Chris could at least eyeball the patch.
>
>@@ -2001,13 +2005,17 @@ abspath (const char *name, char *apath)
>     }
>   else
>     {
>+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
>+      if (STOP_SET (name[0], MAP_PATHSEP))
>+      root_len = 1;
>+#endif

I've eyeballed the patch even though I won't be releasing a version of
make which has this turned on.

I think the above unnecessary if HAVE_DOS_PATHS is true and should be

#if defined(__CYGWIN__) && defined(HAVE_DOS_PATHS)

I'm not sure it's correct to consider \a to be an absolute path in the
same way that /a is since they mean different things to Cygwin but I
guess that's not something that I have to worry about.

cgf