Re: symlink problem - a possible solution

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (K. )]

Steve Youngs <yo...@xe...> writes:

> (file-truename "/[local]rel-symlink")
>
> "/[sm/local]//root/rel-symlink"

It is a complete mystery to me where the "//" comes from.  This
doesn't happen on my system.

But if you set tramp-verbose to 10, you should get a lot of messages
what file-truename is doing.  I wonder if maybe split-string fails
for you?

What does (split-string "/foo/bar" "/") return?  On Emacs 21, it
returns ("foo" "bar").

I think I should install XEmacs pretty soon so that I can test this
stuff.  Hm.  Debian woody has 21.4.1 -- is that good enough for
testing?  Or should I make a local build of something more recent?

kai
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