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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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