Re: [bug #35451] texi2any does not place output in the right place under MSWindows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:48:50 +0000
> From: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden>
> 
> So to recall the problem, under MSWindows I call
> 
> sh makeinfo --html --no-split c:\my\path\fr.texi
> 
> the current directory is 
> 
> c:\somewhere\else
> 
> and the problem is that the output is created under c:\my\path rather than
> under c:\somewhere\else
> 
> sh is MSYS bash shell, and makeinfo is just a wrapper bash script to call
> texi2any.
> 
> If I do sh makeinfo --html --no-split c:/my/path/fr.texi
> 
> there is no problem, but I think that I should be able to use \ instead of /
> because tex2any is installed under MSWindows. Actually it was more practical
> for me to use \ because I make this command line through an ant buildfile that
> generates file path this way. I can robustify this buildfile, but
> nevertheless, I think that there is an issue with texi2any.

The easiest way to fix this is to convert the argument to forward
slashes right from the start (on Windows).  Then the rest of the
script doesn't need to know about backslashes.