Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
And while ~ is a relative path,
No, this is an absolute path (pointing to the home directory). It only
needs expansion to give you this absolute path. It's just a placeholder
for a certain absolute path (which can vary). One or two dots would be a
relative path
On 7-2-2012 17:37, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
But ~ is not the only placeholder that will be expanded. Relative paths
would become absolute paths and environment variables will be replaced
by their values too. And I think it's not restricted to Linus/Unix, it
happens
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
And while ~ is a relative path,
But ~ is not the only placeholder that will be expanded. Relative paths would
become absolute paths and environment variables will be replaced by their
values too. And I think it's
On Tue, February 7, 2012 17:43, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
And while ~ is a relative path,
But ~ is not the only placeholder that will be expanded. Relative paths
would
become absolute paths and environment
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
That's fine. If you just say anything gets expanded to an absolute
path, in my mind:
1. you're implying the thing you're expanding is relative (even if
you're not saying so)
No, IMO this is not true. A relative path is relative to the current
directory (or some
On 7-2-2012 18:34, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
That's fine. If you just say anything gets expanded to an absolute
path, in my mind:
1. you're implying the thing you're expanding is relative (even if
you're not saying so)
No, IMO this is not true. A relative path...
Busy porting FPCUP to Linux... think it's time to quit for the day
This code:
OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
'+bootstrapcompilerdirectory+' result: '+BoolToStr(Operationsucceeded));
should
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 18:40, Reinier Olislagers
reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote:
Busy porting FPCUP to Linux... think it's time to quit for the day
This code:
OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler
On 06/02/12 16:40, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
Busy porting FPCUP to Linux... think it's time to quit for the day
This code:
OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
'+bootstrapcompilerdirectory+' result:
On 6-2-2012 17:49, ik wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 18:40, Reinier Olislagers
reinierolislag...@gmail.com mailto:reinierolislag...@gmail.com wrote:
Busy porting FPCUP to Linux... think it's time to quit for the day
This code:
On 06/02/12 16:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
Your shell expands ~ to your home directory. Your program will have to
do this manually (i.e. read the HOME environment variable).
Like Ido mentioned, ExpandFileName does this already. Perhaps the
documentation could mention it.
Henry
On 6-2-2012 17:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 06/02/12 16:40, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
This code:
OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
'+bootstrapcompilerdirectory+' result:
On 2/6/12 11:49 AM, ik wrote:
You should use ExpandFileName on ForceDirectory's content prior on
sending it to it.
And then go find the directory that you created in error and remove it! ;)
Rich
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On 06.02.2012 18:14, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 6-2-2012 17:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 06/02/12 16:40, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
This code:
OperationSucceeded:=ForceDirectories(BootstrapCompilerDirectory);
debugln('todo: debug: forcedirectories bootstrap compiler dir:
On 6-2-2012 20:53, Sven Barth wrote:
On 06.02.2012 18:14, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
On 6-2-2012 17:50, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 06/02/12 16:40, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
Perhaps I should submit a patch for the docs indicating that:
- ForceDirectories requires an absolute path
This is wrong.
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