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From: |
Anand Kumria |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:42:42 +1100 |
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Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) |
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:47:18 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> John's stuff is MinGW not Cygwin. This is actually what I tried last time
> (3-4 months ago), but from talking to Rob Collins today, this problem
> still exists. There is no easy solution which is why it hasn't been fixed
> yet.
>
> The problem is file paths like this:
>
> {arch}/++pristine-trees/unlocked/libsndfile/libsndfile--mdev/libsndfile--mdev--1.0/address@hidden/libsndfile--mdev--1.0--patch-380/{arch}/libsndfile/libsndfile--devel/libsndfile--devel--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/patch-1
>
> under the {arch} directory. Paths of this length are not handled correctly
> by windows of any flavour.
These paths are handled just fine; however they need to be prefixed with
\\?\ prior to submission to the Win32 API
See:
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp>
and the the commentry for lpFileName.
> Yes, windows is fucked.
Preach it, brother.
Anand
- [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Johannes Berg, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Johannes Berg, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, John A Meinel, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, John A Meinel, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2005/02/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2005/02/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch,
Anand Kumria <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch, Johannes Berg, 2005/02/04