https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61922
--- Comment #3 from Ilya Konstantinov <ilya.konstantinov at gmail dot com> ---
Both mingw and cygwin will eventually call CreateFile, there's no way around
that. The 260 characters limitation is on CreateFile.
Re symlinks - see discussion on the llvm issue. I'm not proposing textual
canonization since it will not respect symlinks. However, applying
GetFullPathName each time will be much better than the current state.
Here's an example:
> cd c:\dev\test\
> gcc test.c
test.c:
#include "foo/foo.h"
BEFORE: CreateFile("foo/foo.h")
AFTER: GetFullPathName("foo/foo.h") --> CreateFile("c:\dev\foo\foo.h)
foo\foo.h:
#include "../bar/bar.h"
BEFORE: CreateFile("foo/../bar/foo.h")
AFTER: GetFullPathName("c:\dev\foo\../bar/bar.h") -->
CreateFile("c:\dev\bar\bar.h)
bar\bar.h:
#include "../baz/baz.h"
BEFORE: CreateFile("foo/../bar/../baz/baz.h")
AFTER: GetFullPathName("c:\dev\bar\../baz/baz.h") -->
CreateFile("c:\dev\baz\baz.h)
