%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I've written a patch to handle drive letters. If anybody has a better
>> solution, please let me know.
bk> I am of a strong opinion that such patches should be kept outside of
bk> the main tree. However I know that Paul disagrees with this
Andreas,
Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The builtin function abspath does not consider drive letters.
> Therefore, I think it will break not only on OS/2 but also on DOS
> or Win* systems. And I suspect it won't work on VMS, too.
I think you are correct. I implemented abspath and
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jg> Perhaps there could be a way to force setting of config.h macro's
jg> for those circumstances.
I was thinking of something like that too. I have to go back and
examine that code again deeply enough to understand it: I can't remember
enough about
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jg> It it would not do any harm, perhaps we could consider filling in
jg> the missing entries with 0?
I've already done this; the change was checked in a week or two ago.
Cheers!
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Hello!
The builtin function abspath does not consider drive letters.
Therefore, I think it will break not only on OS/2 but also on DOS
or Win* systems. And I suspect it won't work on VMS, too.
I've written a patch to handle drive letters. If anybody has a better
solution, please let me know.
Jus
