Issue 9751 - Coverage generation should emit non-problematic filenames.

[ghost]

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9751

[MartinNowak]

You also need a dmd pull request.

[ghost]

You also need a dmd pull request.

I've refixed the pull. It's only the leading characters which are problematic and need to be replaced. Hopefully this passes the whole DMD test-suite now.

[timotheecour]

why only leading characters?
what about :
rdmd -Idir1/../dir2 ?

[ghost]

I thought the Posix problem was only with leading characters?

[timotheecour]

I don't think so : the include flag can cause problems:

rdmd -cov -Itemp/../temp test_01.d

ls
temp temp-..-temp-test_02.lst test_02.d test_01.lst

[ghost]

I see. Ok then I'll just replace all of these with _ and make a DMD pull to fix the tests.

[ghost]

I see. Ok then I'll just replace all of these with _ and make a DMD pull to fix the tests.

The problem with this is that it might break existing tools that read COV output. I'm not sure how to proceed.

[MartinNowak]

Never heard of such a tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words
We could try to normalize paths before using them as cov names.