Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

On 7/8/20 12:22 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Jul-08, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> On 7/8/20 11:07 AM, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
>>> 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.
> I think his point is not to use that utility, just to use its name as
> the name of the perl routine.
>


That would be wholly misleading, since it's not needed at all when we're
running running under cygwin.


cheers


andrew

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