[Axiom-developer] Re: building wh-sandbox on Windows

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> svn should allow user control of line convertion but the documentation
> leaves impression that the settings are hardwired.  I consider this
> as a design (or maybe documentation) bug.  MSYS and cygwin svn
> are runninig in Unix environment so should use Unix line conventions.

They let you set it to whatever you want.

[...]

> > After reading the Common Lisp documentation here:
> > 
> > http://www.cs.queensu.ca/software_docs/gnudev/gcl-ansi/gcl_1130.html
> > 
> > It is not clear to me how I could specify something like
> > 
> >   C:/msys/1.0
> > 
> > to be added to a pathname by this method. How can I expect GCL
> > to know this BASE component of native Windows paths when called
> > from which an MSYS build environment?
> >
> 
> Ansi Lisp has no concept of current directory,

check default-pathname-defaults.

-- Gaby