[PATCH] testsuite: use cygpath to convert from Unix to Windows paths

[Simon Marchi]

On 2020-03-13 3:11 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
> Tom> Today I tried something a little weird -- I did a mingw build on Linux
> Tom> and then tried to run the gdb.server test cases.  Linux can run mingw
> Tom> executables via wine...
> 
> Tom> However this fails with:
> 
> Tom>     ERROR: tcl error sourcing /home/tromey/gdb/build-mingw/gdb/testsuite/../../../binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.server/wrapper.exp.
> Tom>     ERROR: sh: line 0: pwd: -W: invalid option
> Tom>     pwd: usage: pwd [-LP]
> 
> It failed this way on the Windows machine I have access to as well.
> 
> I believe on that machine, I log in to a Cygwin environment, but
> normally I do mingw-hosted builds.  The Cygwin "pwd" doesn't understand -W.

Hey, I missed that somehow, sorry about that.

I think I could implement something where we try multiple methods in sequence:

1. cygpath
2. pwd -W
3. the original regsub that was there prior to this patch

Would this help?

Simon