PR# 12591 Compiler cannot find classes

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: manus_eiffel

Category: Compiler

Priority: Medium

Date: 2007/05/04

Class: Bug

Severity: Serious

Number: 12591

Release: 6.0.6.8021

Confidential: No

Status: Closed

Responsible:

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Synopsis: Compiler cannot find classes

Description

If you have a complex system where all the library are referenced using relative path (you get such a system from a backup) the compiler might not find some classes because the computed path is not a canonical one (i.e. it keeps the relative path so you end up with X\..\Y..\Z..\V instead of just being V). Because those paths are often very large (above the MAXPATH limit of 255 on most platforms) the file system simply says it does not exist.

To Reproduce

Use a rather large backup.

Problem Report Interactions

From:manus_eiffel Date:2007/05/04 Status: Closed Download

Fixed in rev#68124.