Re: [Chicken-users] make-pathname returning more 'canonical' paths

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/10/06, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <address@hidden> wrote:
> One of my programs kinda relies on make-pathname returning "canonical"
> paths.  I noticed that, on Chicken 2.3,
>
>   (make-pathname "" "foo")
>
> returns "/foo" instead of "foo", which was what I was expecting.  I
> wasn't expecting (cut make-pathname "" <>) to return an absolute path.
> That has forced me to add that check and write
>
>   (make-pathname (and (not (string=? dir "")) dir) file)
>
> instead of (make-pathname dir file).  Similarly,
>
>   (make-pathname '("foo" "" "bar") "yes")
>
> returns "foo//bar/yes" (notice the consecutive slashes).  Attached is
> an untested patch (against 2.3) that changes this behaviour, only
> appending a slash when it is really needed.

I think this bug has already been fixed in the current development
version (IIRC by Kon, but I forgot).


(felix)