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Add tests for verbatim paths on windows builds #612
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Terminology note: rust calls these "verbatim" paths. A UNC path is technically one in the form:
A bit more about this here: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/understanding-windows-paths/58583 |
noted |
hmm... it looks the gnu toolchain does not support verbatim paths? Should we disable verbatim tests for the *-windows-gnu targets? |
Ok I think all the changes have been made and should be good to merge? |
This adds test building for windows targets if
--target-dir
gets set to a verbatim path. This is due to the fact that verbatim or verbatim unc paths have an additional requirement of having all path separators to be backslashes as opposed to be permissive of forward and back slashes.This was made in response to #609 / #604.