Re: glob on Windows systems

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11-Jan-2010, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> |   glob: does not work properly with backslash directory separator
>
> Instead of modifying the gnulib glob function to handle \\ in
> filenames, I propose the following patch for Octave.  Could someone
> who is building on MinGW or with MSVC try this patch and let me know
> whether it works?  If it does and there are no objections to this
> solution, I'll apply the changeset.

There is a stray 'p' in your changeset

--- gnulib-glob.patch   Sat Jan 16 23:06:08 2010
+++ .hg/patches/gnulib-glob.patch       Sat Jan 16 22:54:38 2010
@@ -37,7 +40,7 @@
 +  && ! defined (OCTAVE_HAVE_POSIX_FILESYSTEM)
 +          std::replace_if (xpat.begin (), xpat.end (),
 +                           std::bind2nd (std::equal_to<char> (), '\\'),
-+                           '/')p;
++                           '/');
 +#endif
 +
          int err = ::glob (xpat.c_str (), GLOB_NOSORT, 0, &glob_info);

otherwise it works fine.
It also re-enables the tests when executing "make check".
Without it, no tests are run, because globbing does not return any
.m and .cc files...

benjamin