On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:57:17PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 13:34 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
The first is this: Prelude System.FilePath> "." "foo" "./foo" which means we get things like [2 of 2] Compiling GHC.Foo ( ./GHC/Foo.hs, ./GHC/Foo.o ) rather than [2 of 2] Compiling GHC.Foo ( GHC/Foo.hs, GHC/Foo.o ) Is there a reason the result shouldn't be "foo"?
The function that does that is normalise. It strips leading . and colapses things like foo/../
If I start off with filepaths in normal form then I don't think I should need to normalise the result after using a function like , though.
Possibly relatedly, the current directory seems to be "" rather than ".". This turns up in at least a couple of areas: Prelude System.FilePath> normalise "." ""
That's just a bug.
The "Possibly relatedly" is because currently filepath doesn't think that "." is in normal form (which breaks my argument above), but IMO it should be. Thanks Ian