Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

On 7/8/20 11:07 AM, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:54 PM Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com
> <mailto:andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Incidentally, perl2host is arguably a bad name for this routine -
>     there
>     is nothing perl-specific about the paths, they are provided by the
>     msys
>     environment. Maybe virtual2host or some such would be a better
>     name, or
>     even just host_path or native_path.
>
>
> There is a utility cygpath [1] meant for the conversion between Unix
> and Windows path formats, that might be a meaningful name also.
>
> [1] http://cygwin.net/cygwin-ug-net/cygpath.html
>
>


Oh, good find. But unfortunately it's not present in my msys1 installations.


So we'll still need to use the 'pwd -W` trick for those.


cheers


andrew


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