Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:22 -0400 > From: > Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org > > > It still works on modern Windows systems as well. > > This was an old msdos batch file trick. There was no way to directly tell if > a directory existed, > But if c:\some\dir\nul "existed" then c:\some\dir did. N

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread dsmich
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: David Kastrup > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:56:46 +0200 > > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > >> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100 > > >> From: Neil Jerram > > >> > > >> On 2014-06-09 20:32, l...@gnu.org wrote: > > >> > What’s the name of /dev/null o

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: David Kastrup > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:56:46 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100 > >> From: Neil Jerram > >> > >> On 2014-06-09 20:32, l...@gnu.org wrote: > >> > What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows? > >> > >> NUL > > > > Yes, "nul" case

Re: MinGW vs. setlocale

2014-06-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:30:46 +0200 > > > 1. i18n.test completely fails, because it depends on the ability to > >change the program's locale at run time. I wish this whole test > >were skipped on Windows. (I'm quite sure I reported this last > >

Re: Windows file name separators

2014-06-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:42:36 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii skribis: > > > 3. load.test fails: > > > > FAIL: load.test: search-path for "foo.scm" yields "dir1/foo.scm" > > > >(The messages are misleading: "yields" should be "should yield".) > > > >

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread David Kastrup
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100 >> From: Neil Jerram >> >> On 2014-06-09 20:32, l...@gnu.org wrote: >> > What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows? >> >> NUL > > Yes, "nul" case-insensitively. If I remember correctly, even something like C:\tmp\nul.txt would serve

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Cc: guile-devel > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:44:17 +0200 > > Eli, I noticed there are many other occurrences of /dev/null in the test > suite. Do they all need to be patched to use NUL, or is /dev/null > somehow interpreted correctly in some contexts? Whe

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100 > From: Neil Jerram > > On 2014-06-09 20:32, l...@gnu.org wrote: > > What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows? > > NUL Yes, "nul" case-insensitively.

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Eli Zaretskii 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: >> >> (

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Neil Jerram skribis: > On 2014-06-09 20:32, l...@gnu.org wrote: >> What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows? > > NUL > > For example: > > C:\Users\nj>echo hello >NUL OK, thanks! Ludo’.

Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

2014-06-10 Thread Neil Jerram
On 2014-06-09 20:32, l...@gnu.org wrote: What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows? NUL For example: C:\Users\nj>echo hello >NUL C:\Users\nj> Regards, Neil