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RE: make-3.81: bug-report: function abspath works incorrectly onwidows
From: |
Dave Korn |
Subject: |
RE: make-3.81: bug-report: function abspath works incorrectly onwidows |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:16:38 +0100 |
Vitaly Murashev wrote on 26 June 2008 11:45:
>> . It doesn't produce fully qualified file names from drive-relative
>> names such as "d:foo/bar".
>
> Not really. My patch produces the same output for "d:foo/bar"
> and for "d:/foo/bar", the result is "d:/foo/bar"
That's a mistake, because the two are not the same.
The path "d:foo/bar" without a slash after the colon means "foo/bar
relative to the current working directory on the D: drive". Unless your
working directory is the root dir, that's not the same thing as
"d:/foo/bar".
cheers,
DaveK
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