From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Current CVS having a problem with NTEmacs paths Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:58:41 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048251785 11781 80.91.224.249 (21 Mar 2003 13:03:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 14:03:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wMAo-00033U-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:03:02 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18wMCT-0000DQ-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:04:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wMAl-0002kO-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:02:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wM7N-0007Sk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wM7F-0006wp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:59:23 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wM79-0006GP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wM6v-0002jE-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:59:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wM6s-0002ic-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:58:58 +0100 Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ukF/TVVTFW9qymxoZ7jpB1WfUUg= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12504 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12504 I have this fragment in my .emacs, which is causing an error with the latest CVS: (if (not (file-directory-p backup-file-dir)) (make-directory backup-file-dir)) If you look at the stack backtrace: make-directory-internal("c:OCUME~1/dave/LOCALS~1/Temp/emacs~") make-directory("C:\\DOCUME~1\\dave\\LOCALS~1\\Temp/emacs~") you can see that the backslashes are not getting interpreted correctly, and in particular the first one is getting dropped. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com