On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 06:47:05PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > In addition to the changes I've submitted for review, I think the resolution > to this > problem involves work in src/data/make-file.c > > The issue is, this module contains a lot of calls to posix file functions, > such as > open, rename, unlink etc. > > These work in w32 so long as there are no non-ascii characters in the > filenames. > To get other characters to work, we have to do two things: > > 1. Convert the filenames to UTF-16LE > AND > 2. replace the function calls by their WideChar equivalents. > > Step 2 however has caveats: > > open --> _wopen is no problem. > unlink --> _wunlink is no problem. > rename --> _wrename will not work, because windows rename refuses to > overwrite an existing file. We will > have to use the native Windows function MoveFileW > > Not sure about stat. > > > It may end up being easier to have a platform specific implementation of > make-file.c > > What do you think?
Can this be fixed in Gnulib somehow? A system-specific implementation makes sense except that we lack proper resources to test it. _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
