[Rpm-maint] [Suse patch] debugedit: include compilation directory if used

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 07:22:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Michael Schroeder <mls at suse.de> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:25:23PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael, any idea what the case behind this patch was? It's not that I
>>> object to it or anything, I just have no clue what this is supposed to be
>>> doing :)
>>
>> I just asked Andreas Schwab, the guy who created the patch. He
>> said that it is needed so that one can translate relative pathnames
>> to absolute ones. (CC to Andreas, maybe he can shed some more light
>> on this.)
>
> compilation directory + relative file name must be a valid file name,
> which can only be true when the compilation directory exits.

Would it be possible for you to check whether you still need this patch 
with current rpm.org debugedit (like Paul mentions, it's possible this has 
been fixed in another way there)?

 	- Panu -



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