From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:16:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83r42uxd3v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lht730k8.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4x56fql.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4x5ng4u.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvjc22pc.fsf@gnu.org> <87bntzoc4e.fsf@gnu.org> <83ha3rzdoj.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2eelee3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402593423 20319 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2014 17:17:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 19:16:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1Wv8cP-0001py-P5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:16:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8cP-0006qt-7f for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38079) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8cE-0006qn-Qc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8c7-0004b3-KI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:62133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv8c7-0004Zx-BO; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7200500FQKPG00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:16:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N72005I1FZLP210@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:16:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87d2eelee3.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17215 Archived-At: > From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) > Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:29:24 +0200 >=20 > >> +(define %null-device > >> + ;; On Windows (MinGW), /dev/null does not exist and we must i= nstead > >> + ;; use NUL. Note that file system procedures automatically t= ranslate > >> + ;; /dev/null, so this variable is only useful for shell snipp= ets. > >> + (if (file-exists? "/dev/null") > >> + "/dev/null" > >> + "NUL")) > > > > Not sure this is a good idea: I can create a file /dev/null on > > Windows, but that doesn't mean it is my null device. >=20 > Yes, but using %host-type isn=E2=80=99t perfect either, no? What w= ould you > prefer? How about testing if the absolute name of the current directory start= s with a drive letter?