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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.




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