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Re: shared lib dos filename style - one more question
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, danny dot backx at scarlet dot be, drow at false dot org
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:57:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: shared lib dos filename style - one more question
- References: <1253973110.10921.76.camel@pavilion> <83ococicct.fsf@gnu.org> <20091013052437.GJ5272@adacore.com>
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 06:24:37, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
> > If unixify is supposed to support Windows file semantics, then the
> > last 2 cases are incorrect, IMO. ?4 should return "c:." and 5
> > "c:/path/to/a".
>
> Actually, I think in this case "unixify" would mean trying to make
> sense out of Windows path on a Unix machine: The target sent us
> c:\path\to\dll, and we're trying to find that dll on the host.
> So best guess on the host is probably /path/to/dll. ?After that,
> we should be able to use the root prefix setting, if necessary,
> in order to find the file on the host.
>
That leaves out drives other than "c:", unlike Eli's version.
Do we always want to discard that possibility?
If the "c:/" isn't there, then at least a "c/" could be, so that
you can still map a "d:" using directories or symlinks on
the host, something like this:
/sysroot/c/path/to/a
/sysroot/d/path/to/b
Leaving the ':' in:
/sysroot/c:/path/to/a
/sysroot/d:/path/to/b
The former, without ':' allows using the same sysroot
on a Windows host, since I don't think you can create
directories with ':' there.
(
Wine maps a "sysroot" similarly:
ls -als .wine/dosdevices/
c: -> ../harddiskvolume1
d: -> ../harddiskvolume2
z: -> /
Look, a file named 'c:' on a unix box! Okay, this
case doesn't really count. :-)
)
Worth considering, IMHO, perhaps as an optional mode,
similar (or exactly like) to Daniel's tri-state
setting suggestion.
--
Pedro Alves