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Re: 1.19 check fails on cygwin
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Alexander Jones |
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Re: 1.19 check fails on cygwin |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:50:39 -0600 |
ASCII 0x2D is a hyphen, but ed doesn't actually escape it (on GNU/Linux
either). Commenting out the cleanup code shows that the created file has
the literal name "\x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile", which is illegal on
Windows (as it contains a backslash).
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:01 PM Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Developers,
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> testing ed-1.19...
> *** The script /pub/devel/ed/tmp/ed-1.19/testsuite/w.ed exited
> abnormally ***
> tests failed.
>
> the full content of tmp is
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> $ cat /pub/devel/ed/tmp/ed-1.19/tmp/w.log
> \x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile: No such file or directory
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> I am not familiar with this escape "\x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile"
> what is the expectation on Unix system ?
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> Regards
> Marco
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> ed packager for Cygwin
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