[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: canonicalize paths from environmental variables

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 29/09/10 22:41, Allan McRae wrote:
>>
>> On 29/09/10 22:33, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>
>>> This prevents circular symlinks and weird final package locations
>>> when using commands like 'PKGDEST="." makepkg'.
>>>
>>> Fixes FS#20922.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Note that this adds readlink as a dependency to makepkg. That is provided
>>> by coreutils which is essential anyway so I do not think this is an
>>> issue.
>>>
>>
>> And I may be wrong... it appears readlink does different things with -f
>> on OSX/BSD. Off to find a more compatible solution.
>>
>
> Could any BSD/OSX users report on whether "realpath ." give the full path?

It worked fine according to this: c8a41b7d6da7f820754a07cb085687ea5e110f85