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. > > So we could have a customized version of canonpath, which on Windows > mirrors all backslashes to forward slashes.
We could solve the problem in two steps. In texi2any:merge_open_files, we could call File::Spec->canonpath. As the failing test is testing whether the error message is output, this should make the error message output. Further, for consistent reference test results, we could normalise the error message (but not delete it, as I suggested before). We could delete the filename after the message "overwriting file".
