Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:43:05 +0100 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r309035 - in head/lib/libpathconv: . tests Message-ID: <20161127204305.GA58954@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <201611230757.uAN7vqmC008888@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201611230757.uAN7vqmC008888@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:57:52AM +0000, Julian Elischer wrote: > Author: julian > Date: Wed Nov 23 07:57:52 2016 > New Revision: 309035 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/309035 > Log: > This little BSD licensed library has been kicking around for years. > It allows one to trivially convert an absolute path to a relative path > and the reverse. The test programs themselves are very useful in scripts > but the real use comes shortly with the -r and -a arguments to ln. > These are sometimes known as the --relative and --absolute flags and > can force a symlink to be relative when you only have an absolue path. > Another place these are sometimes used is to add -a and -r args to 'realpath'. > Incredibly useful in Makefiles. > I was going to just add the files in with 'ln' but a library makes more sense. > The test programs may come out in their own right some day for scripting. > released under a BSD 2-clause: > * Copyright (c) 1997 Shigio Yamaguchi. All rights reserved. > * Copyright (c) 1999 Tama Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. > The test directry does not conform to any framework. > Not connected to build. > doc people may want to play with the manual pages. > Obtained from: https://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert.html Shigio Yamaguchi. > MFC after: 1 month > Relnotes: yes > Sponsored by: Panzura, Tama Communications Corporation Consider making this a static-only library or a part of an existing library such as libc or libutil, since the overhead of a shared object is rather big compared to the amount of code here. Thanks for not linking this to the build right away. -- Jilles Tjoelker
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