[petsc-dev] getting rid of win32fe

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote:

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> On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote:
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> >>  Can  config/BuildSystem/client-python/cygwinpath.c be used to get rid of win32fe?
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> > The functionality looks unrelated to win32fe.
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>   Isn’t that what win32fe does, convert unix style paths to win style paths that then get passed to the windows compilers?

win32fe does more than that.

- converts some gcc type arguments to cl format [for eg: -c, -o]
- marshall arguments to cl [for eg: cl is perticular about certain order in which the
arguments should be listed]
- similar convertion and marshalling of arguments to 'lib' tool - and make it
useable similar to 'ar'
- And sure - identify and convert (only) PATH type arguments to the windows notation.

cygwinpath.c appears to be a python wrapper to cygwin utility "cygpath"
- which helps with path conversions.

$ cygpath -w /home/balay
C:\cygwin\home\balay

Satish

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>   Barry
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> > Satish
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> >> Otherwise it should be tossed since it isn’t used by BuildSystem, right?
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