From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bytecompiler test fails Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:05:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83381jiy1o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fv5lhsu1.fsf@gnu.org> <834mm0ihft.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434985572 25009 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2015 15:06:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 22 17:06:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73IJ-0004Ku-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:05:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73IJ-0006mu-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58431) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73Hq-0006mZ-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73Hn-0002cs-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:56515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73Hn-0002br-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NQC00B00PUNI400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:05:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NQC00B00PWXAS70@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:05:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187379 Archived-At: > From: Fabrice Popineau > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:21:54 +0200 > Cc: Emacs developers > > This command is expected to fail in test/automated/vs-tests.el:133: > > (shell-command-to-string (format "cvs -Q -d:local:%s co module" tmp-dir)) > > because tmp-dir is a windows path, aka c:/Users/.../temp . > > I have an msys2/rcs installed: > > $ pacman -Q rcs > rcs 5.9.4-1 > $ pacman -Q cvs > cvs 1.11.23-2 > > But if I'm right, being an msys2 rcs/cvs, they don't support native win32 path > syntax. It depends on how they were ported, but in general, yes, I'd expect them not to support d:/foo/bar file names. I don't know how to fix that, given that it could be a native Windows application, an MSYS application, or a Cygwin application. The only idea I have is provide a primitive that would return the type of the application, and then act accordingly.