Re: copy_test, update crash and dirent_uri failure on Windows

[Ed]

Bert Huijben wrote:

    DEBUG ERROR

    Program:
    d:\other_projs\svn\trunk\Debug\subversion\svn\svn.exe

^^^^^

    The application has requested the Runtime to terminate it
    in an unusual way.

This is a known issue in APR. Apr doesn't like when any of the active drives
has a lower case drive letter in its path.
E.g. see  http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-10/0682.shtml
and http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-11/0075.shtml

Most Windows applications never create lower case drive letters in the
current directories. E.g

You have to do special operations to make it happen. Not just switching
drives.
E.g.
C:\> d:
D:\> cd /d c:\windows
c:\windows>

Weird.

Here you have a lower case drive letter in the current directory. And if you
would run the tests from this situation you will see the test failure.

In most cases I heard of this happens because the user uses an alternative
shell instead of cmd.exe like Cygwin.

The fix should be implemented in APR and before that you can work around
this issue by fixing the drive letter casing via the same trick.

Thanks, Bert.

Very much appreciate the help there.

Edmund