Re: Bug in builtin function abspath (again)

2006-05-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> 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

Re: Bug in builtin function abspath (again)

2006-05-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% 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