Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

[Andreas Büning]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Apart of simpler code (IMHO), this patch also has 2 other advantages:
> 
>  . It handles the d:foo case by converting it to d:./foo

Just a short comment: the abspath description says that it returns
"an absolute name that does not contain any `.' or `..' components".


>  . It returns the result with all backslashes converted to forward
>    slashes, so $abspath can be used on an already absolute file name
>    to convert it to forward slashes, where we previously had to use
>    $patsubst.
> 
> Please test.  The Makefile I used to test it is this:

Seems to be all right. Your patch is better than mine.


Thanks

Andreas Büning