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

[Glynn Clements]

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:

#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).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>