Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: > 2. c-api.test fails with many messages such as this one: > > 'CUR' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. > > This is because c-api.test does this: > > (define (egrep string filename) > (zero? (system (string-append "egrep '" string "' " filename " > >/dev/null")))) > ... > (if (and (file-exists? file) > (egrep "SEEK_(SET|CUR|END)" file)) > > There are two problems here: quoting that is not supported by > Windows shells, and redirection to /dev/null. The former is easily > fixed portably: > > (system (string-append "egrep \"" string \"" " filename > > The latter requires either an OS-dependent string in the *.scm > source of the test, or a variable (called, e.g., null-device) that > will be set correctly for each platform, which could then be used > by the test unconditionally.
What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows? Ludo’.
