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From: | James Jong |
Subject: | Re: [Help-stow] chdir errors: Unable to bootstrap stow |
Date: | Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:56:15 -0400 |
Yes, shell expansion is not performed on the contents of .stowrc, soOn Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:30:02PM -0400, James Jong wrote:
> I have the following in my .stowrc:
>
> --dir=~/opt/stow_all/stow_storage
> --target=~/opt/stow_all/stow_appear
> --ignore='~'
> --ignore='^CVS'
>
> and I have built stow from the git repository at:
> ~/opt/stow_all/stow_storage/stow_2.2.0_canonical_paths
>
> i.e. the above path holds the actual bin, lib and share for stow.
>
> I am trying to bootstrap stow itself, so I did:
> > cd ~/opt/stow_all/stow_storage
> > ./stow_2.2.0_canonical_paths/bin/stow stow_2.2.0_canonical_paths
>
> but this returned:
>
> Loading defaults from /home/avazquez/.stowrc
> stow: ERROR: canon_path: cannot chdir to ~/opt/stow_all/stow_storage from
> /nfs/titan7/u125/opt/stow_all/stow_storage
>
> Is there anything that I am doing wrong?
you cannot use the '~' shorthand for home directories. I'd happily
accept a pull request to implement that feature however ;-)
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