GNU bug report logs - #55386
29.0.50; check-declare-directory doesn't work on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu <at> utahime.org>

Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 15:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 55386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: yasu <at> utahime.org, 55386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55386: 29.0.50; check-declare-directory doesn't work on
 Windows
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 14:21:01 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Why are you surprised?

Because:

> So I suspect the OP doesn't have a port of GNU Find
> on Path before the Windows program of the same name (which does
> something completely different), or maybe the version of Find or Grep
> the OP has don't support non-ASCII characters encoded in the OP's
> locale's codepage.

There's always stuff like this in Windows-related bug reports.  😀

> I wonder whether it could be a good idea to replace the find/grep
> command by something that traverses the files in Lisp, like
> dired-do-search or somesuch?  This would resolve any problems with
> file names and incompatible versions of Find and Grep.

It would be massively slower, though.

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