Hi! On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:58:51 -0400, David Michael <fedora....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Thomas Schwinge > <tho...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:29:07 -0400, David Michael <fedora....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> I tried running mig on a system without Perl ealier with bad results. > >> Perl seems to be used only for functionality that is also provided by > >> GNU coreutils (which is already required, e.g. for dirname). Does it > >> make sense to drop the Perl command in favor of using realpath here? > > > >> -libexecdir_rel=$(perl -MFile::Spec -e 'print > >> File::Spec->abs2rel("'"$libexecdir"'","'"$bindir"'")') > >> +libexecdir_rel=$(realpath --relative-to="$bindir" "$libexecdir") > > > > Thanks for the patch, and I'd be happy to apply that, however, on four > > arbitrary (Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel) systems that I just tried, I either > > see: »realpath: unrecognized option '--relative-to'«, or »bash: realpath: > > command not found«, whereas the Perl variant works on all of these. > > Okay, I didn't realize that it had only been two or three years since > a coreutils release first included this functionality. Sorry for the > noise.
Not noise at all -- we always welcome such cleanup/simplification patches, so keep these coming. Heh, and I'll set a note in my calendar for 2020, to revisit this. :-) (In the Hurd project, we're never in a hurry.) Grüße, Thomas
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