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Re: ‘local-file’ resolves relative to source file


From: Thompson, David
Subject: Re: ‘local-file’ resolves relative to source file
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:03:07 -0500

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Commit 9d3994f changes ‘local-file’ to resolve relative file names
> relative to the form where ‘local-file’ appears.
>
> This means that you can use it in your OS config, and files will be
> looked up relative for your OS config file (instead of relative to
> $PWD), which is usually what one expects.
>
> Feedback welcome!

That's bitten me a few times and my attempt to fix it with
'source-filename' failed.  Thank you!

- Dave



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