Re: [clisp-list] *device-prefix* on cygwin

[Mirko V. <mir...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
> Mirko Vukovic wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just discovered (and, hopefully, fixed) an apparent bug in makemake.in
>>> which
>>> should have caused a line
>>> (setq *device-prefix* "")
>>> to be appended to config.lisp, resulting in clisp not handling properly
>>> pathnames like "c:/foo/bar".
>>> what do cygwin clisp users see for
>>> *device-prefix* ==> ?
>>> (truename "c:/autoexec.bat")  ==> ?
>>> (or some other existing file on c:)?
>>> what if you do
>>> (setq *device-prefix* "cygdrive")?
>>> does CVS head treat such pathnames better ootb?
>>> thanks.
>>
>> Is this useful?
>
> yes, very!
> thanks!
>
>> CL-USER> *device-prefix*
>> ""
>> CL-USER> (truename "c:/autoexec.bat")
>> #P"/c/autoexec.bat"
>> CL-USER> (setq *device-prefix* "cygdrive")
>> "cygdrive"
>> CL-USER> (truename "c:/autoexec.bat")
>> #P"/cygdrive/c/autoexec.bat"
>> CL-USER>
>>
>> I have c: mounted as /c.
>
> did you do something special to accomplish that or is this the new cygwin
> default behavior?
> if you do not do this, does (truename "c:/autoexec.bat") fail?
>
>
>
Sam,

I don't think I did anything special.  I am not sure what you are
driving at, so I could be missing your point.

Mirko