[Msys2-users] python and directory separators

[Stephen L. <ste...@st...>]

I'm building Botan (http://botan.randombit.net/download.html). It uses a
Python script for configre. The configure script generates paths with Python's
os.path.join(...); in msys Python this uses '\' as the path separator.
This causes problems in many places in the Makefile, giving errors like:

install: cannot stat ‘.srcutilstypes.h

when it should be ./src/utils/types.h

I had the same problem in msys; I solved it with a sed script:

   $ sed -i 's#\\\(.\)#/\1#g' Makefile

But that is broken in msys2:

/usr/bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 11: Unmatched ( or \(

We can't simply replace _all_ \; some are line continuations.


The best fix would seem to be to fix msys2 Python os.path.join to use /.

Can I do that?

Short of that, any ideas?

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-- Stephe