[GRASS-dev] winGRASS: enabling non-english languages?

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> > Because the path lacks the .exe suffix, the access() call fails.
>> > G_spawn() itself doesn't need the .exe suffix, but it never gets that
>> > far.
>>
>> Would this be hell?
>>
>> #ifndef __MINGW32__
>>     sprintf(lister, "%s/etc/lister/%s", G_gisbase(),
>> #else
>>     sprintf(lister, "%s/etc/lister.exe/%s", G_gisbase(),
>> #endif
>
> The .exe goes on the end:

Err, sure.

> #ifndef __MINGW32__
>    sprintf(lister, "%s/etc/lister/%s", G_gisbase(),
> #else
>    sprintf(lister, "%s/etc/lister/%s.exe", G_gisbase(),
> #endif
>
> Except ... this requires that the lister is an executable; there's no
> fundamental reason why it couldn't be a script, other than the
> access() check (well: that, and the fact that G_spawn() etc don't use
> the shell currently).

So the question is if fixing the problem for g.[m]list -f brings us a big
deal of new troubles. The question is how often -f is used...

Despite that, someone will need to test the copying spawn.c from 7.0
before doing that in 6.4-SVN.

Markus