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Re: Finding absolute path from relative.


On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:28PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am thinking about the algorithm required to find the absolute path to
> a source file given the relative path and the output from 'show dir'.
> 
> Is it really as easy as this,
> 
> for I in 'show dir' # for each directory in show dir
>    if $I/relative_path exists 
>       break; # Found absolute path.
> 
> Or does it get more complex and obfuscated?

Well, often the input file has a specified directory.  That gets tried
first.

Anyway, there's a good comment or two about this in the source code...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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