Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken thinks Cygwin is windows platform

[felix]

Dale Jordan wrote:
> The function C_software_type at line 6382 in runtime.c is classifying Cygwin
> as "windows" software type.  This has the effect of setting the
> path-directory-separator character to #\\, with disastrous effect.  While
> not knowing all the ramifications, I changed Cygwin to be "unix" type, which
> solved the immediate problems of "csi -hygienic" and "csi -setup" failing.
> Does this cause any other problems?

In fact, even under Cygwin, (software-type) should return 'windows
(because that's what it is). Using #\\ for the pathname separator is
still wrong for cygwin of course, so the code that assigns the
value in library.c has to check for (software-type) being msdos or
windows (unless (build-platform) returns 'cygwin or 'mingw32).
This is actually fixed in the current CVS version (well, half of it,
it doesn't yet check for mingw32).


cheers,
felix