From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:48:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbs5gb8f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r42uxd3v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:16:20 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
>> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:29:24 +0200
>>
>> >> +(define %null-device
>> >> + ;; On Windows (MinGW), /dev/null does not exist and we must instead
>> >> + ;; use NUL. Note that file system procedures automatically translate
>> >> + ;; /dev/null, so this variable is only useful for shell snippets.
>> >> + (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.
>>
>> Yes, but using %host-type isn’t perfect either, no? What would you
>> prefer?
>
> How about testing if the absolute name of the current directory starts
> with a drive letter?
Like (string-match "^[a-zA-Z]:[/\\]" (getcwd)) ?
Sounds reasonable.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-08 15:04 MinGW issues in Guile 2.0.11 Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-09 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-09 18:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-06-09 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-09 19:30 ` MinGW vs. setlocale Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-10 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-11 13:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-11 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-12 8:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-12 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-15 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 15:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-21 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-22 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 4:53 ` Doug Evans
2014-06-19 8:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-09 19:32 ` MinGW vs. c-api.test Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-10 9:05 ` Neil Jerram
2014-06-10 11:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-10 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-10 15:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-10 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-11 0:36 ` dsmich
2014-06-11 2:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-10 11:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-10 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-11 12:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-11 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-12 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-12 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-12 19:48 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-06-12 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-12 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-13 9:15 ` Neil Jerram
2014-06-13 16:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-13 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-13 16:26 ` Neil Jerram
2014-06-13 16:31 ` Mike Gerwitz
2014-06-13 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-09 19:42 ` Windows file name separators Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-10 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-30 11:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-30 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-01 9:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-01 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-01 15:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-02 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-02 20:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-02 20:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-03 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-03 17:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-03 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-07 20:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-07-08 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-02 16:13 ` Fix 'dirname' and 'basename' on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-09 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-09 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-02 16:16 ` Provide reasonable stack limit " Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-02 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-03 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-02 16:30 ` Bug in scm_getaffinity Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-02 21:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-03 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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