%% Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ez> Incidentally, shouldn't we emulate realpath's failures in ez> func_realpath on systems that don't have realpath? AFAIK, ez> realpath fails if the file does not exist, so perhaps we should ez> stat the result of abspath on such systems and return an NULL if ez> it fails.
ez> WDYT? Actually, the man pages I've seen are not specific on this. They all say: > The realpath function will resolve both absolute and relative paths > and return the absolute pathname corresponding to pathname. All but > the last component of pathname must exist when realpath is called. It's not immediately clear to me what "all but the last component of pathname" means; presumably it means that the directory containing the last filename in pathname must exist, but that the filename itself does not have to exist. I'd need to look at some sample implementations to see what that actually means. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
