Re: [Mingw-users] fopen in msys/mingw

[Lorenzo B. <be...@ds...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Lorenzo Bettini <be...@ds...>:
> 
>> When compiling a program that uses fopen and run it from msys, it fails
>> to open files such as
>>
>> /usr/local/share/foo.lang
>> /home/myself/foo.lang
>>
>> although the files are there (and I can see them with less from the msys
>> shell)... it suceeds to open them only when using the paths
>>
>> c:/msys/1.0/local/share/foo.lang
>> c:/msys/1.0/home/myself/foo.lang
>>
>> is this the intended behavior?
>>
> 
> You haven't given enough to say whether what you perceive is correct or 
> not.  If the path is being passed to the program from the shell on the 
> command line then MSYS should convert it for you.  If the path is being 
> passed to fopen hardcoded in the source then yes, it is the correct 
> behavior.  MSYS has no idea what fopen is doing; that belongs to the 
> MSVCRT runtime.
> 

yes, I was actually talking about an hardcoded path, which in turn is 
retrieved directly from the configure script (the $prefix value); since 
configure defaults to /usr/local as a prefix, this technique basically 
does not work correctly in this environment

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