svn commit: r309035 - in head/lib/libpathconv: . tests

[Jilles Tjoelker]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:57:52AM +0000, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Author: julian
> Date: Wed Nov 23 07:57:52 2016
> New Revision: 309035
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/309035

> Log:
>   This little BSD licensed library has been kicking around for years.
>   It allows one to trivially convert an absolute path to a relative path
>   and the reverse. The test programs themselves are very useful in scripts
>   but the real use comes shortly with the -r and -a arguments to ln.
>   These are sometimes known as the --relative and --absolute flags and
>   can force a symlink to be relative when you only have an absolue path.
>   Another place these are sometimes used is to add -a and -r args to 'realpath'.
>   Incredibly useful in Makefiles.

>   I was going to just add the files in with 'ln' but a library makes more sense.
>   The test programs may come out in their own right some day for scripting.

>   released under a BSD 2-clause:
>    * Copyright (c) 1997 Shigio Yamaguchi. All rights reserved.
>    * Copyright (c) 1999 Tama Communications Corporation. All rights reserved.

>   The test directry does not conform to any framework.
>   Not connected to build.
>   doc people may want to play with the manual pages.

>   Obtained from:  https://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert.html  Shigio Yamaguchi.
>   MFC after: 1 month
>   Relnotes:       yes
>   Sponsored by:   Panzura, Tama Communications Corporation

Consider making this a static-only library or a part of an existing
library such as libc or libutil, since the overhead of a shared object
is rather big compared to the amount of code here.

Thanks for not linking this to the build right away.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker