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Autoconf Macro: adl_normalize_path
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adl_normalize_path
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SYNOPSIS
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<code>adl_NORMALIZE_PATH(VARNAME, [REFERENCE_STRING])</code>
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DESCRIPTION
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Perform some cleanups on the value of $VARNAME (interpreted as a path):
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- empty paths are changed to '.'
- trailing slashes are removed
- repeated slashes are squeezed except a leading doubled slash '//'
(which might indicate a networked disk on some OS).
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REFERENCE_STRING is used to turn '/' into '\' and vice-versa: if
REFERENCE_STRING contains some backslashes, all slashes and backslashes are
turned into backslashes, otherwise they are all turned into slashes.
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This makes processing of DOS filenames quite easier, because you can turn a
filename to the Unix notation, make your processing, and turn it back to
original notation.
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filename='A:\FOO\\BAR\'
old_filename="$filename"
# Switch to the unix notation
adl_NORMALIZE_PATH([filename], ["/"])
# now we have $filename = 'A:/FOO/BAR' and we can process it as if
# it was a Unix path. For instance let's say that you want
# to append '/subpath':
filename="$filename/subpath"
# finally switch back to the original notation
adl_NORMALIZE_PATH([filename], ["$old_filename"])
# now $filename equals to 'A:\FOO\BAR\subpath'
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One good reason to make all path processing with the unix convention is
that backslashes have a special meaning in many cases. For instance
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expr 'A:\FOO' : 'A:\Foo'
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will return 0 because the second argument is a regex in which backslashes
have to be backslashed. In other words, to have the two strings to match
you should write this instead:
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expr 'A:\Foo' : 'A:\\Foo'
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Such behavior makes DOS filenames extremely unpleasant to work with. So
temporary turn your paths to the Unix notation, and revert them to the
original notation after the processing. See the macro <a href=
"adl_compute_relative_paths.html">adl_COMPUTE_RELATIVE_PATHS</a> for a
concrete example of this.
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REFERENCE_STRING defaults to $VARIABLE, this means that slashes will be
converted to backslashes if $VARIABLE already contains some backslashes
(see $thirddir below).
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firstdir='/usr/local//share'
seconddir='C:\Program Files\\'
thirddir='C:\home/usr/'
adl_NORMALIZE_PATH([firstdir])
adl_NORMALIZE_PATH([seconddir])
adl_NORMALIZE_PATH([thirddir])
# $firstdir = '/usr/local/share'
# $seconddir = 'C:\Program Files'
# $thirddir = 'C:\home\usr'
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SOURCE CODE
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LICENSE
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Copyright © 2008 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
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