[SciPy-dev] Bug in distuils appendpath

[Pearu Peterson]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Jörgen Stenarson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The tests for appendpath in scipy.distutils.misc_util fail on a windows 
> machine. The reason is that the join used to build the expected answer does 
> not normalize the path to contain \ instead of /. There is also a small 
> problem in appendpath itself. Both prefix and path need to have abspath 
> applied otherwise one of them will begin with c:\prefix and the other one 
> won't.
>
> After these two changes the tests pass on my windows machine.

Thanks for the patches. appendpath and its tests are fixed in SVN now.

Pearu