[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36677] make_absolute_filename: extend to work with Windows drive letters

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #36677 (project octave):

                  Status:          Ready For Test => In Progress            
             Open/Closed:                  Closed => Open                   

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Follow-up Comment #17:

I pushed a patch here that supports the file URI scheme in
make_absolute_filename:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/79efd0653155

At the moment, make_absolute_filename "canonicalizes" the file name if the
input is a relative path. But it does not if the input is an absolute path.
Imho, this is inconsistent. But the documentation is not clear on what is
expected.

The attached patch adds preliminary support for "canonicalizing" absolute
paths.
It isn't quite complete because it doesn't correctly treat something like
"file://hostname/C:/test/../../../file".

But before I continue: Would we expect make_absolute_filename to
"canonicalize" absolute paths?

(file #46404)
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