Re: Determining HOME under MinGW

[David Ayers]

> > Well I just checked my W2K system, which has an OPENSTEP Enterprise 
> > installed.
> > HOMEDRIVE=C:
> > HOMEPATH=/
> > USERPROFILE=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Ayers
> > I guess on an english system it would be:
> > USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Ayers
> >
> > Now by concept the USERPROFILE actually fits the notion of the "user" 
> > directory beter.  Yet this path is bound to have spaces and I'm not 
> > sure what implications that would have. (I wondering whether 
> > gnustep-make needs checks for files in this directory.)  Please also 
> > not the slash/backslash difference.
>
> Sounds like this change should probably be reverted then ... I'm 
> pretty sure that spaces in paths etc are really bad news for mingw/msys.
> Would someone who currently has a windows system working like to check 
> this and get back to me, and I'll revert the changes I put in if 
> necessary. 


Just a suggestion:

If HOMEPATH has a length of one, maybe we could just append USERNAME and 
try to create this directory, if it doesn't exist, and use it.

Cheers,
Dave