On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:43:05PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > 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.
+1 seems like a good candidate for libutil Best regards, Bapt
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