[Quilt-dev] dirname

[John Vandenberg]

Hi,

In order to workaround the msys bug [1] [2], Andreas suggested that
msys users could set QUILT_PC to ".pc/" instead of ".pc".  This works
well except in fold, where mkdir (line 95) does the wrong thing when
the dirname removes all consecutive slashes [3], resulting in a path
like .pcpatch1.diff/dir instead of .pc/patch1.diff/dir.  Backing that
patch out fixes this problem, but I suspect more changes are required
before dirname does the right thing.

As an aside, dirname isn't heavily used, or used in a performance
critical loop (afaics) -- running the entire test suite invokes it 148
times.  Is it worth keeping in patchfns ?  If it exist for
compatibility reasons, can I write a few tests and move it to
compat/dirname.in?

1. http://lists.zerezo.com/mingw-msys/msg00525.html
2. http://zeroj.hda0.net/quilt/patches/msys-sh-wierd-bug.diff
3. 
http://cvs.sv.nongnu.org/viewcvs/quilt/quilt/scripts/Attic/patchfns.in?r1=1.9&r2=1.10

--
John