Re: [patch] 21.3 filecache.el - Added Cygwin support

[jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.linux)]

* 2004-01-25 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> gnu.emacs.bug
* <http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_umsgid=%3Cmailman.1309.1075039727.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
| > From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.linux)
| > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
| > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:52:12 +0200
| > | 
| > | One thing I don't understand about these changes: why do we need all
| > | those ugly system-dependent tests?  Why not test if `find' is
| > | installed on all supported platforms regardless?
| > 
| > The "find" from Windows is different from the Cygwin (Unix) "find", so
| > this distinctions must be examined.
| 
| I know that on Windows one must test whether `find' is the Unix-style
| `find'.  What I was asking was something different: why not make that
| test unconditionally, on all systems.

Hard to do. The code currently tests GNU find by searching "GNU" from
--version.  But --version does not work in SunOS, HP, SGI, IBM, they have
their own find and making tests for all of those is beyond my reach.

So:

1) If it's not PC, assume Unix find
2) If it's PC, then test for GNU find (most likely Cygwin GNU find)

Anything else, I don't know what to test. Please take it from there to
improve.
 
| > Right. Anything else missing?  Jari
| > 
| > 
| > 
| > 
| > 2004-01-25 Sun  Jari Aalto  <jari.aalto@poboxes.com>
| > 
| >         * filecache.el (file-cache-find-unix-p): Added
| >         check for `ms-dos' as well.
| 
| What about the Mac?

elisp-manual-21-2.8 reports variable window-system like this:


 - Variable: window-system
     This variable tells Lisp programs what window system Emacs is
     running under.  The possible values are
    `x'
          Emacs is displaying using X.
    `pc'
          Emacs is displaying using MS-DOS.
    `w32'
          Emacs is displaying using Windows.
    `mac'
          Emacs is displaying using a Macintosh.
    `nil'
          Emacs is using a character-based terminal.

Is there a bug in documentation, because I canät see `windows-nt' or
`ms-dos' values? Perhaps someone should check the latest if it's
being edited.

Here is more fixes, based on your comment and the manual.
Jari



2004-01-26 Mon  Jari Aalto  <jari.aalto@poboxes.com>

        * filecache.el (file-cache-find-unix-p): Added
        `mac' `pc' and `w32' tests.


Index: filecache.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cygdrive/h/data/version-control/cvsroot/emacs/gnu-emacs/lisp213/filecache.el,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -IId: -b -w -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- filecache.el	25 Jan 2004 11:49:15 -0000	1.4
+++ filecache.el	26 Jan 2004 00:12:13 -0000	1.5
@@ -329,10 +329,17 @@
 
 (defun file-cache-find-unix-p ()
   "Check if `file-cache-find-command' is Unix type program."
-  (or (not (memq system-type              ;; Assume Unix system
+  ;;  First, assume Unix system, which has find(1).
+  ;;  SunOS, HP, IBM have their own versions of find(1).
+  (or (not (memq system-type
                  '(windows-nt
-                   'ms-dos)))
-      (with-temp-buffer                   ;; Cygwin?
+                   pc
+                   w32
+                   mac
+                   ms-dos)))
+      ;;  This is PC system, can we see GNU find(1)
+      ;;  like one bundled in Cygwin?
+      (with-temp-buffer
         (call-process file-cache-find-command
                       nil
                       (current-buffer)



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