gEDA-dev: New MinGW patches for gEDA/gaf

[Peter Clifton]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 12:06 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote:

> There is still some work in progress in the following areas:
> 
> * MinGW does not have realpath.

For PCB, we included an implementation "lrealpath()", from libiberty. It
is intended to provide that functionality in a platform independent way.

http://pcb.cvs.sourceforge.net/pcb/pcb/src/lrealpath.c?view=log
http://pcb.cvs.sourceforge.net/pcb/pcb/src/lrealpath.h?view=log
http://pcb.cvs.sourceforge.net/pcb/pcb/configure.ac?r1=1.68&r2=1.69

Its behaviour does change slightly depending on which platform method it
ends up using - but it performs a "best effort" conversion, falling back
to just returning the passed in file name.

GNU libc has canonicalize_file_name(), which is one of the methods
lrealpath might use on some platforms.

Hope this helps in some way,

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

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