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RE: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support
From: |
Tim Van Holder |
Subject: |
RE: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:13:06 +0100 |
> > - /* | [A-Za-z]:*) ;;
> > - */*) prog="`pwd`/$prog" ;;
> > + [/\\]* | [A-Za-z]:[/\\]*) ;;
> > + *[\\/]*) prog="`pwd`/$prog" ;;
>
> > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
> > # Always use an absolute srcdir. Otherwise symlinks made in subdirs
> > # of the test dir just won't work.
> > case "$srcdir" in
> > - /*)
> > + [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
> > ;;
> >
> > *)
>
> My opinion is that there should be exactly one case pattern used
> everywhere. I can see they were different before your patch, but I'd
Sorry - should have seen this. Which should we make canonical:
"[A-Za-z]:[\\/]" or "?:[\\/]" ?
> suggest that your patch makes them uniform. And of course, the same
> as promoted by autoconf.texi :)
<innocent mode>How do you mean, Akim? autoconf.texi doesn't say anything
about this... Or do you want me to add such an entry?</innocent mode>
> Please, don't cut and paste, your patches are not applicable.
Sorry - will use MIME attachments from now on. Will resubmit this and the
other patches.
> Hm, what was wrong? I mean, ln -s was exit 0, but actually failed?
Yep - "ln -s foo bar" works, gets you bar.exe (which tries to call
"foo" when invoked) on DOS; this is exactly why AC_PROG_LN_S was patched
and why the ln -s setup was added to m4sh.
- Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support, Tim Van Holder, 2001/02/10
- Re: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support, Akim Demaille, 2001/02/19
- RE: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support,
Tim Van Holder <=
- Re: Patch 1 of 4: Better DOS path support, Akim Demaille, 2001/02/20
- Manual additions (DOS issues), Tim Van Holder, 2001/02/20
- Re: Manual additions (DOS issues), Akim Demaille, 2001/02/21
- RE: Manual additions (DOS issues), Tim Van Holder, 2001/02/21
- RE: Manual additions (DOS issues), Tim Van Holder, 2001/02/21
- Re: Manual additions (DOS issues), Akim Demaille, 2001/02/22
- Re: Manual additions (DOS issues), Alexandre Oliva, 2001/02/22
- RE: Manual additions (DOS issues), Tim Van Holder, 2001/02/22