3 Feb
2008
3 Feb
'08
8:21 p.m.
Things are complicated because
- on Cygwin, pwd gives you /cygdrive/c/... - on MSYS, pwd gives you /c/...
(remember we still support MSYS), and we want c:/...
So we used to use cygpath on cygwin, and some horrible sed command on MSYS, IIRC. It was a mess, and frequently went wrong.
Sure there are other ways to do it, but I think at the time it seemed simpler to write a Haskell program. In hindsight, probably a C program (compiled using mingw gcc) would be better for bootstrapping. A shell script would be problematic for the reasons above, I'm guessing.
I understand that this is a difficult issues, but as it is booting from HC files and hence porting is simply broken. So, I wonder what the way forward is... Manuel