On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 09:17:59 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I encountered a bunch of issues when running with msys2 on Windows (but one > of them could have happened on cygwin as well). > > * fixpath must set MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL="*" before running cmd.exe to figure > out the temp directory, or msys might interfere with the command line to cmd. > > * Paths like "/c/s/source/jdk", meaning to point to "c:\s\source\jdk", would > be interpreted by fixpath as "/cs:\source\jdk", since the leading "/c" would > be considered a prefix. This is not a problem on cygwin, where the /cygpath > prefix makes paths unambiguous. I countered this by checking if the file > exists (as written, or just the basepath, or the first 3 parts of the path). > If so, I treat it as a filename, rather than a prefix. > > * Configure is supposed to handle windows-style input paths, but > `--with-bootjdk=c:\java\jdk-17` or similar would break, since we started to > look for files in that directory without having to normalized the path first. > > * Finally, configure.guess sometimes reports msys as `mingw` and sometimes as > `msys`, depending on the value of MSYSTEM. (And for some values, the old > autoconf-configure.guess breaks -- I did not bother fixing this.) Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8989
