Re: pgsql: Blindly try to fix test script's tar invocation for MSYS. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 3/18/21 10:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Buildfarm member fairywren doesn't like the test case I added
>> in commit 081876d75.  I'm guessing the reason is that I shouldn't
>> be using a perl2host-ified path in the tar command line.

> No, you shouldn't. The rule is that you need to use perl2host when
> passing a path to a non-msys-aware program. This will typically be one
> of our own artefacts, or the comand processor (via system(), qx() etc.).
> But msys-aware programs such as utility programs like tar should get the
> path just as the perl script sees it.

Ah.  So it seems like the $64 question is how to know that tar, or any
particular other program, is msys-aware.

            regards, tom lane