Re: [Gnu-arch-users] file path normalization for my-revision-library

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    > "tla my-revision-library" does not normalize/canonicalize its directory 
    > name argument.  The functions it uses assume that two different 
    > directory names mean two different directories.  Thus, it is possible to 
    > add the same library to the library path *twice*:

    > address@hidden:~/tlasrc$ tla my-revision-library /etc
    > address@hidden:~/tlasrc$ tla my-revision-library /etc/
    > address@hidden:~/tlasrc$ tla my-revision-library
    > /etc
    > /etc/

    > However, other tla commands treat /etc and /etc like the same directory.

    > This inconsistency can lead to a lot of confusion. 

    > This tiny patch adds path normalization to my-revision-library.  At the 
    > moment, normalization merely removes any trailing backslashes.

    > http://www.aaronbentley.com/tla-devel
    > revision tlasrc--local--1.2--patch-7

    > No attempt is made to deal with hard links or symlinks-- it could be 
    > argued that such trickery must be permitted.

Correct diagnosis of bug but relatively wrong fix.   You didn't know
about src/tla/libfsutils/dir-as-cwd.[ch] which does the "trickery" you
were thinking of.

Merged with suitable munging.

-t