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Re: [PATCH] syslinux_test: Fix out-of-tree build handling
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [PATCH] syslinux_test: Fix out-of-tree build handling |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:43:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:17:38PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> Current GIT should support relative pathnames; this is better
> solution. I had in mind syslinux test, but as you are working on it
> anyway could you look at simply cd'ing into correct directory and
> using relative pathnames everywhere?
I tried, but I'm afraid that doesn't work; grub-syslinux2cfg still calls
grub_canonicalize_file_name on its --root argument, and that produces a
canonicalised absolute pathname, so the output still contains quite a
few absolute paths. Given that, I think my previous patch is the
simplest approach.
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