[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51632] make global pkg paths always relative to OCTAVE_HOME, no need to pkg rebuild -global when path changes

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #49, bug #51632 (project octave):

The changeset that introduced the short file names in MXE Octave is probably
https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/a45374f7d9a3

There is no bug number in the commit message. So I don't know which specific
error(s) should have been addressed by this change. And I can't test whether
this is still necessary. I might not be with the changes to how we use the
Windows file system API. Non-ASCII characters are ok now. If it was spaces in
paths: they can be an issue on all platforms.

But to advance with the original issue: Don't worry about providing
cross-builds. I am cross-building quite irregularly but quite frequently
myself.
Could you please check which of the "canonicalize_file_name" calls can be
omitted from your patch? Performance isn't really important for "pkg". But we
try to avoid double checks in other places as well. See also comment #41.

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