make vs-ide-integration bumbling on paths in Windows

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 6:24 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas
<ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> wrote:
>
> A Windows user gets this when running make vs-ide-integration:
>
> D:/libre/lode/opt/bin/make -j 4 -rs -f
> D:/libre/lode/dev/core/Makefile.gbuild gbuildtojson
> cd D:/libre/lode/dev/core &&  D:/libre/lode/dev/core/bin/gbuild-to-ide
> --ide vs --make D:/libre/lode/opt/bin/make
> python3: can't open file
> '/cygdrive/d/libre/lode/dev/core/D:/libre/lode/dev/core/bin/gbuild-to-ide':
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> make: *** [Makefile:495: vs-ide-integration] Error 2
>
> What can make Python think the gbuild-to-ide resides in such a curious path?

Having a copy of the config.log and config_host.mk would be
interesting to see - is python3 a proper cygwin one?

I assume just attempting to run
D:/libre/lode/dev/core/bin/gbuild-to-ide will already give the same
output?
(should print usage message)

ciao
Christian