bug#10474: Building guile 2.x under mingw + msys

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Eli,

On Thu 02 Feb 2012 18:34, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>  . module/ice-9/boot-9.scm -- absolute-path? does not support Windows
>                               file names with drive letters.  Windows
>                               absolute file names match the regex
>                               "\([a-zA-Z]:\)?[\\/]".  I don't know
>                               Scheme well enough to write this in a
>                               clean way, sorry...

I pushed a fix that recognizes drive components and UNC file names as
absolute, and that attempts to allow for (and prefer) backslash as a
file name separator on Windows systems.

>       Fix startup of guile.exe on MS-Windows.
>
>       * module/system/base/compile.scm (call-with-output-file/atomic):
>       Call close-port before deleting the temporary file name, otherwise
>       deletion fails on MS-Windows (cannot delete a file that is still
>       open).

Applied, thanks.

>       * libguile/load.c (scm_init_load_path) [__MINGW32__]: Convert
>       backslashes to forward slashes in values of GUILE_LOAD_PATH and
>       GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH.

Is this necessary now that backslash is recognized as a file name
separator?  I did not apply this part yet.

Still working on the rest.

Thanks,

Andy
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