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Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-08T16:22:04Z
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On 2020-Jul-08, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> On 7/8/20 11:07 AM, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:

> > There is a utility cygpath [1] meant for the conversion between Unix
> > and Windows path formats, that might be a meaningful name also.
> >
> > [1] http://cygwin.net/cygwin-ug-net/cygpath.html
> 
> Oh, good find. But unfortunately it's not present in my msys1 installations.
> 
> So we'll still need to use the 'pwd -W` trick for those.

I think his point is not to use that utility, just to use its name as
the name of the perl routine.

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Commits

  1. Enable almost all TAP tests involving symlinks on Windows