Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Make tests work from symlinked paths

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 05:59:37PM +0200, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:
> Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> writes:
> > Maybe "readlink -f" ?
> 
> OK, Peter found that even that is not portable so I changed the test
> itself to do the path canonicalization. Turns out that while the posix
> unit's read-symbolic-link has a CANONICALIZE option it doesn't quite
> behave like the readlink(1) program. So I went ahead and adapted its
> behavior to match that. I also noticed that the types.db entry for
> read-symbolic-link did not include that optional argument so I took it
> as an opportunity to fix this, as well.

Thanks, this has been pushed (with a minor correction in the absolute
pathname case - it referred to an undefined variable "link", which
obviously was supposed to be "target")

Cheers,
Peter
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