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Re: Path processing bug

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I don't agree with you that /../ components are actually seldom in path
> expressions.  If you examine typical source trees, you'll find that
> expressions as -I../../foo/bar or -L/path/to/bin/../lib are used quite
> often.

Indeed.  Even just "gcc hello.c" has to wade through all this:

$ gcc -print-search-dirs
install: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/
programs:
=/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/
libraries:
=/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../:/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/lib/:/usr/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/

Brian

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