Re: Determining HOME under MinGW

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 03:52  pm, David Ayers wrote:

> Tom Koelman wrote:
>
> > Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I'll trust that this is a good idea ... I don't know about windows 
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I've implemented USERPROFILE in NSHomeDirectoryForUser() and
> > > in the corresponding user_home.c code in the make package.
> >
> > Well, USERPROFILE is the location where user specific files are
> > usually stored. The HOMEDRIVE / HOMEPATH construction is used _very_
> > seldomly, as far as I know, actually I hadn't heard of it's existance
> > before I discovered OpenStep.
> Well I just checked my W2K system, which has an OPENSTEP Enterprise 
> installed.
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH=/
> USERPROFILE=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Ayers
> I guess on an english system it would be:
> USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Ayers
>
> Now by concept the USERPROFILE actually fits the notion of the "user" 
> directory beter.  Yet this path is bound to have spaces and I'm not 
> sure what implications that would have. (I wondering whether 
> gnustep-make needs checks for files in this directory.)  Please also 
> not the slash/backslash difference.

Sounds like this change should probably be reverted then ... I'm pretty 
sure that spaces in paths etc are really bad news for mingw/msys.
Would someone who currently has a windows system working like to check 
this and get back to me, and I'll revert the changes I put in if 
necessary.