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Re: suggestion: option to emit bison '--print-datadir' as absolute path
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: suggestion: option to emit bison '--print-datadir' as absolute path (on Windows) |
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Sat, 2 May 2020 10:24:01 +0200 |
Hi Jannick,
> Le 20 nov. 2018 à 22:35, Jannick <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Hi Akim,
>
> Suggestion: for Windows users it would be great if there were an _option_
> that the path to 'bison --print-datadir' be emitted as an absolute path
> (forward slashes would be best I believe).
>
> This would tremendously help Windows users directly call bison's data
> dependencies in a dos shell without having the pleasure to fiddle around
> with the path components to come up with the absolute path.
>
> NOTE: Some Windows users use bison in a linux-like environment (e.g.,
> cygwin, msys2) where linux-like paths (e.g., '/usr/bin') should still be
> provided as there are now. This is why I suggested an additional option (on
> Windows). linux-like environments on Windows I know are well trained to
> understand absolute paths with forward slashes.
I don't really understand the suggestion here. --print-datadir prints
whatever is coming from options passed to ./configure, typically
--prefix. And this is usually an absolute path, so it is actually
fairly unconventional for --print-datadir to return a relative path.
Can you give me details on how you reached that state?
Thanks!
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