On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 10:26:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:01:51 +0100 > > From: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > > I couldn't find anything obvious, here is a patch that shows directly > > the option value, please apply and report the value. > > This code from Converter.pm: > > if (defined($self->get_conf('SUBDIR')) and $output_file ne '') { > my $dir = File::Spec->canonpath($self->get_conf('SUBDIR')); > print STDERR "DFD SUBDIR: '$dir'\n"; > $output_file = join('/', ($dir, $output_file)); > > calls File::Spec->canonpath. I'm pretty sure it returns file names > with backslashes on Windows, evidently because that's the "canonical" > form of file names there.
That was also my first guess, but I had a look at the code and did not find evidence. I have reread the code, and it is actually obvious that it is done. > So we could have a customized version of canonpath, which on Windows > mirrors all backslashes to forward slashes. Indeed, I'll do that. -- Pat
