On 2013-08-02 17:12, Zaak Beekman wrote:
I am wondering what the best way to detect and prevent in source builds is.
Some potential pitfalls are relative paths vs absolute paths, and symbolic
links (build_dir -> source_dir). If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to
hear them. Obviously string comparisons handle neither of these nefarious
cases.

...get_filename_component(REALPATH) will help with both of those.

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Matthew

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