Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows
Date: 2020-07-08 17:18:00
Message-ID: ff6430bc-9bef-ec24-3889-7bfe326f7495@2ndQuadrant.com
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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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