#5852: Properly canonicalize $SAGE_ROOT
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    Reporter:  tornaria        |         Owner:  jdemeyer    
        Type:  defect          |        Status:  needs_review
    Priority:  major           |     Milestone:  sage-4.7.3  
   Component:  scripts         |    Resolution:              
    Keywords:                  |   Work_issues:              
    Upstream:  N/A             |      Reviewer:              
      Author:  Jeroen Demeyer  |        Merged:              
Dependencies:                  |  
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Comment(by jdemeyer):

 Replying to [comment:33 leif]:
 > You just have to
 >  * strip the program name, and
 >  * if no path remains after that, it's the current working directory,
 i.e. path=".".
 >  * `cd` to that path and do `pwd -P`.  Doesn't matter whether the path
 was relative or absolute.
 Again, this does not work if the executable itself is a symbolic link.

 It could very well be that my solution is too complicated, but your
 solution is certainly too simple.

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