[Ecls-list] Fwd: Bug in user-homedir-pathname under MS-Windows.

[Jean-Claude Beaudoin]

For some strange reason it looks like the following message ended-up in the
bit bucket.
So here it is again in case you missed it.

Cheers,

Jean-Claude Beaudoin


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From: Jean-Claude Beaudoin <jean.claude.beaudoin at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:30 AM
Subject: Bug in user-homedir-pathname under MS-Windows.
To: ecls-list <ecls-list at lists.sourceforge.net>



Hello,

Here is attached a patch against 8.12 to fix a small bug in function
"user-homedir-pathname" when
ran under MS-Windows.  Basically, drive and path were inverted resulting in
a nonsensical
pathname.

In the patch I also set the conditional compilation such that the same
behavior is produced
on MS-Windows that ECL be compiled under MS Visual C or under MingW32/gcc. I
would
like to advocate that a typical MS-Windows user does not want to know by
what tool his instance
of ECL was produced and should not be surprised by what would be to him
inexplicable differences
of behavior. On the top of it, if you wish to maintain "a la Unix" behavior
you can always set
the HOME environment variable and it will have precedence over HOMEDRIVE
HOMEPATH.

Cheers,

Jean-Claude Beaudoin
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