Re: [Patch] - Fix compilation of direct_uri-test.c on OS/2

 On 7/22/2010 4:02 PM, Bert Huijben wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Zeitler [mailto:eric.zeitler_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 23:50
>> To: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: [Patch] - Fix compilation of direct_uri-test.c on OS/2
>>
>> Matthew Bentham <mjb67 <at> artvps.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 28/06/2010 10:29, Bert Huijben wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Julian Foad [mailto:julian.foad <at> wandisco.com]
>>>>> Sent: maandag 28 juni 2010 10:48
>>>>> To: Paul Smedley
>>>>> Cc: dev <at> subversion.apache.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Patch] - Fix compilation of direct_uri-test.c on
>> OS/2
>>>>> On Sun, 2010-06-27, Paul Smedley wrote:
>>>>>> [[[
>>>>>> Fix compilation of direct_uri-test.c on OS/2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * subversion/tests/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri-test.c : add define of
>> getdcwd
>>>>>> as _getdcwd for __OS2__ as well as _MSC_VER
>>>>>> ]]]
>>>>> Hi Paul. To see if there were other similar places, I searched
>> for
>>>>> _MSC_VER and found two more. Can you confirm whether the
>> following is a
>>>>> good patch?
>>>> _MSC_VER is a check for the Microsoft compiler (and it's compiler
>> specific
>> include files; we check for
>>> Windows in a different way), __OS2__ checks for a platform.
>>>> Maybe we should just try to move this to platform specific checks.
>>>>
>>>> The only problem is that I have no way to confirm if this function
>> is
>> available under the less common
>>> cygwin/mingw environments. Borland C++ is most likely compatible with
>> the
>> Microsoft compilers.
>>>> Bert
>>>>
>>> _getdcwd does not exist on the cygwin platform (which is a Unix
>>> platform), but _getdcwd and _wgetdcwd are available under mingw32
>> (which
>>> is a Windows platform) through direct.h.
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>>
>> I have created a patch to fix this very issue for Cygwin.
> This patch disables all C:/ like path support in Subversion if you compile
> it for Cygwin. I would guess that is not what you intended?
>
> We probably need a specific patch to target that function instead of just
> switching all path handling to unix-like.
>
> Bert
>
Cygwin, by default, gives a big scary warning if you use DOS paths so I
figure anyone who really needs it can use cypath. I don't think anyone
was depending on this as it didn't even compile before.