[PATCH] Fix cache dir resolving on Windows
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Tue Jun 4 16:17:00 GMT 2019
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:05:52 -0400
>
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/knownfolderid
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/csidl
> >
> > But maybe we don't care about that. I know that many applications
> > ported from Unix don't.
>
> If it's not too complicated to do The Right Thing (use these and be a good citizen,
> I would prefer that. But I won't be the one writing the change for Windows
> and maintaining it, so I won't force it either.
If we want to follow the recommendations, it's just the matter of
using a different environment variable: APPDATA instead of
USERPROFILE. It is usually a subdirectory of USERPROFILE.
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