Re: Suspicious warning in W64 build

[Richard Copley]

On 8 September 2017 at 22:08, Richard Copley <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8 September 2017 at 21:17, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Richard Copley <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 20:31:08 +0100
>>> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>,
>>>       Emacs Development <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> Would you mind also suppressing warnings from find-file-noselect
>>> when called from autoload-find-generated-file, please, if you don't
>>> object?
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not sure that's the right solution in that case.  We should
>> try to understand why the problem happens in the first place.  E.g., I
>> don't see it here (but I don't use MinGW64 or MSYS2).
>
> Seriously (not being rude)? It seems a lot of work for not much
> benefit. That conversion happens often, e.g., in normalize_filename.
> And it's unlikely a warning from find_file_noselect there is ever
> going to be helpful in catching a new bug.
>

As a short-cut/side-step, could we normalize one or both filenames
explicitly, somewhere nearer to the call site (perhaps for w32 only)?
But I don't know if there's a lisp function for that.