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Fix cache dir resolving on Windows

Message ID 20190603193716.4861-1-orgads@gmail.com
State New, archived
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Orgad Shaneh June 3, 2019, 7:37 p.m. UTC 
  From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>

... when not running from MSYS environment, and HOME is not set.
---
 gdb/common/pathstuff.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Eli Zaretskii June 4, 2019, 2:44 p.m. UTC | #1 
> From: orgads@gmail.com
> Cc: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon,  3 Jun 2019 22:37:16 +0300
> 
> From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
> 
> ... when not running from MSYS environment, and HOME is not set.
> ---
>  gdb/common/pathstuff.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/common/pathstuff.c b/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
> index 2b1669a5b9..edb8a1fcda 100644
> --- a/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
> +++ b/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
> @@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ get_standard_cache_dir ()
>  #endif
>  
>    const char *home = getenv ("HOME");
> +#ifdef _WIN32
> +  if (home == nullptr)
> +      home = getenv ("USERPROFILE");
> +#endif
>    if (home != NULL)

This is against the MS platform recommendations regarding "known
folders", see

  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/knownfolderid
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/csidl

But maybe we don't care about that.  I know that many applications
ported from Unix don't.
Simon Marchi June 4, 2019, 3:05 p.m. UTC | #2 
On 2019-06-04 10:44 a.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: orgads@gmail.com
>> Cc: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon,  3 Jun 2019 22:37:16 +0300
>>
>> From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
>>
>> ... when not running from MSYS environment, and HOME is not set.
>> ---
>>  gdb/common/pathstuff.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/gdb/common/pathstuff.c b/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
>> index 2b1669a5b9..edb8a1fcda 100644
>> --- a/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
>> +++ b/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
>> @@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ get_standard_cache_dir ()
>>  #endif
>>  
>>    const char *home = getenv ("HOME");
>> +#ifdef _WIN32
>> +  if (home == nullptr)
>> +      home = getenv ("USERPROFILE");
>> +#endif
>>    if (home != NULL)
> 
> This is against the MS platform recommendations regarding "known
> folders", see
> 
>   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/knownfolderid
>   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/csidl
> 
> But maybe we don't care about that.  I know that many applications
> ported from Unix don't.

If it's not too complicated to do The Right Thing (use these  and be a good citizen,
I would prefer that.  But I won't be the one writing the change for Windows
and maintaining it, so I won't force it either.

Simon
Eli Zaretskii June 4, 2019, 4:17 p.m. UTC | #3 
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:05:52 -0400
> 
> >   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/knownfolderid
> >   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/csidl
> > 
> > But maybe we don't care about that.  I know that many applications
> > ported from Unix don't.
> 
> If it's not too complicated to do The Right Thing (use these  and be a good citizen,
> I would prefer that.  But I won't be the one writing the change for Windows
> and maintaining it, so I won't force it either.

If we want to follow the recommendations, it's just the matter of
using a different environment variable: APPDATA instead of
USERPROFILE.  It is usually a subdirectory of USERPROFILE.
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diff --git a/gdb/common/pathstuff.c b/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
index 2b1669a5b9..edb8a1fcda 100644
--- a/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
+++ b/gdb/common/pathstuff.c
@@ -231,6 +231,10 @@  get_standard_cache_dir ()
 #endif
 
   const char *home = getenv ("HOME");
+#ifdef _WIN32
+  if (home == nullptr)
+      home = getenv ("USERPROFILE");
+#endif
   if (home != NULL)
     {
       /* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded.  */