Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

On 7/8/20 9:54 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Then, with a little more sprinkling of perl2host the pg_basebackup tests
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> I'm going to prepare patches along these lines.
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After much frustration and gnashing of teeth here's a patch that allows
almost all the TAP tests involving symlinks to work as expected on all
Windows build environments, without requiring an additional Perl module.
I have tested this on a system that is very similar to that running
drongo and fairywren, with both msys2 and  MSVC builds.


I didn't change the name of perl2host - Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof. But I did modify it  a) to allow use of cygpath if
available and b) to allow it to succeed if the grandparent directory
exists when cygpath isn't available.


cheers


andrew



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