Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:29:24 +0200
>> 
>> >> +(define %null-device
>> >> +  ;; On Windows (MinGW), /dev/null does not exist and we must instead
>> >> +  ;; use NUL.  Note that file system procedures automatically translate
>> >> +  ;; /dev/null, so this variable is only useful for shell snippets.
>> >> +  (if (file-exists? "/dev/null")
>> >> +      "/dev/null"
>> >> +      "NUL"))
>> >
>> > Not sure this is a good idea: I can create a file /dev/null on
>> > Windows, but that doesn't mean it is my null device.
>> 
>> Yes, but using %host-type isn’t perfect either, no?  What would you
>> prefer?
>
> How about testing if the absolute name of the current directory starts
> with a drive letter?

Like (string-match "^[a-zA-Z]:[/\\]" (getcwd)) ?

Sounds reasonable.

Ludo’.