Re: glob and fnmatch functions from gnulib

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Dec-2009, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

| Hello
| 
| 
| AFAIK, to use glob and fnmatch in windows, patches are required to use path 
separator '\'.
| I have been used Benjanmin's Patch.
| 
| 
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/glob/glob-1.0-4.patch?revision=6463
| 
| I quickly look at 
| gnlib/lib/glob.c
| 
| Treatment for path separator '\' does not exit and the patch by Benjamin 
should be applied for windows
| build.
| 
| I leave this comment for the user who would like to build glob and fnmatch in 
'gnulib' for octave for
| windows.

OK.  I think we need to bring this up with the gnulib maintainers.

As I recall, Windows allows either / or \ as directory separators, so
it seems like we should allow that in glob as well.  There might be
some other issues with \, like requiring that GLOB_NOESCAPE is always
true on Windows systems.

Anyway, I think it would be best to get these things fixed in gnulib
instead of maintaining our own patched glob code.

jwe