Re: [jamboost] Feature redefinition problem

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-14 08:55:20

Rene Rivera wrote:

> >So that everybody knows: Austin has send me a testcase and it turns out
> >there's a bug in NORMALIZE_PATH builtin. When passed
> >
> > ../../foo/bar
> >
> >it does not simplify this path, whereas it should return "." I'm about to
>
> fix
>
> >this tomorrow.
>
> I don't think so... That reduction is only valid if PWD == foo/bar.

Oh... right! Thanks for catching this before I've spend a lot of time on 
fixing a non-bug. Gotta find some other way of avoiding duplicate 
loading of Jamfile.

> >P.S. Never knew normalizing paths is *that* tricky.
>
> You should see the reams of C++ code I have to normalize NT paths :-(

:-)

- Volodya