[Libreoffice] small utility script to handle ../bin/g and similar commands

Norbert Thiebaud nthiebaud at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 12:18:59 PDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:00:55AM -0500, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  The problem is that if you are in rootgit/rawbuild/vcl/source for example
>>  git-rev-parse with give you ../../
>>  the same result as if you where at
>>  rootgit/clone/libs-gui/vcl/source
>>  and now you are in the road to readlink and its notorious non-portability
>
> Okay, fine. I was just asking if there is a reason you don't use it, or
> you just didn't met that tool so far.

It is indeed a useful and not-so-well known tool, thanks for mentioning it.

Norbert


>
> Thanks.
>


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