Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Andy Wingo writes:

> I don't much like this approach.  Besides mixing in a heuristic on all
> machines that is win32-specific, it makes c:/foo.scm collide with
> d:/foo.scm in the cache, and fails to also modify load.c which also does
> autocompilation in other contexts.

Yes, a newer version of this patch also includes load.c and boot-9.scm.
Of course the drive letter should be kept.

> Is anyone interested in implementing a path library?

What's the status/estimate on this -- of course I agree this would be
nicer, otoh, a patch to these three files is available that makes guile
run on mingw right now.

Greetings, Jan

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