canonicalize-lgpl: work around AIX realpath bug
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:17:50 +0000 (16:17 -0600)
committerIan Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:31:01 +0000 (01:31 +0100)
commit5c698aed93bbe644a9b228dd40553cb8ad5a616c
tree513dd7915805aa20d68b961c62ee0251ce04ee0c
parenta1f89e9647a64e0d4b54a1daf711792078ecad49
canonicalize-lgpl: work around AIX realpath bug

AIX 7.1 realpath() gets horribly confused by consecutive /
in the name to be resolved.

* m4/canonicalize.m4 (gl_FUNC_REALPATH_WORKS): Expose AIX bug.
* doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi (realpath): Document it.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c2245238b3d9cc9a367c133065ef675e2f599333)
ChangeLog
doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi
m4/canonicalize.m4