Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

This discussion strayed a bit far from the initial need to concatenate
"/foo/bar" with "c:/baz/qux".

On Tue 03 May 2011 09:44, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue 03 May 2011 00:18, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> So volumes matter in the file name canonicalization of the .go cache
>> right?
>>
>> Couldn’t we mimic /cygdrive/c, etc.?
>
> Is that what cygwin does?  We certainly could, yes; though for the
> purposes of joining the cache dir to an absolute filename, I guess we
> could simply change c:/foo to /c/foo...  Hum!

MSYS apparently does this as well.  Probably it's what we should do in
the case of caches.  But this sort of thing is very nasty without a path
library :-/

Andy
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