Re: [PATCH] Fix some failing tests in BSD systems

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 03:41:20 +0200
> 
> On 03.01.2021 19:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why are we producing file names by concatenation, instead of calling
> > expand-file-name?  Wouldn't using the latter solve the problem?  Or
> > what did I miss?
> 
> While we sometimes do that (expand-file-name is not free, and for 
> certain uses its overhead counts), that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Not sure what you mean: I clearly saw calls to concat in the patch,
both in the old and the new code.  What did I miss?

> The double slash here is produced by an external program, not by 
> concatenation.

I understand that much, but expand-file-name removes the double
slashes as part of its job, doesn't it?