On 22/01/11 02:38 , Martin Costabel wrote:
> On 21/01/11 20:42 , Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On 1/21/11 1:44 PM, Jesse Alama wrote:
>>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:41, Alexander Hansen<[email protected]>   
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ick.  If this link has different names in different languages, I guess
>>>> you'll need to test for all of them.  Good thing there aren't an
>>>> infinite number.
>>>
>>> Yeah. I guess the first task is to find out just what languages are 
>>> available. Do I date trash the file? I suppose I should just rename it. But 
>>> screwing with the users computer in this way feels weird...
>>
>> I'd propose testing for its existence in the CompileScript, and throwing
>> an error if it exists, with a message telling the user to move the file.
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to deactivate that failure-prone test?
> A patchfile line like the following should do the trick
>
> perl -pi -e 's|\(deftest readdir.1|#-darwin\n$&|'
> contrib/sb-posix/posix-tests.lisp

I'll try to be more explicit:

This is a serious upstream bug. Any entry in "/" with non-ascii 
characters in its name will trigger it. That test *is* flawed. Just 
create a directory called "/£", "/Información", "/黄山" or "/בראשית", or 
a symlink "/Système"->"System", and sbcl build will fail.

Therefore jumping through hoops just to warn users in one specific case 
is perhaps not a wise move. Unless someone (upstream) comes up with a 
correct version of that test, disabling it seems to be the right idea. 
Plus, it is very simple (see patch line above).

-- 
Martin


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