> Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:49:17 -0400
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > 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
%% 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 r