Repeating the default WARNS here makes it slightly more difficult to
experiment with default WARNS changes, e.g. if we did something absolutely
bananas and introduced a WARNS=7 and wanted to try lifting the default to
that.
Drop most of them; there is one in the blake2 kernel module, but I suspect
it should be dropped -- the default WARNS in the rest of the build doesn't
currently apply to kernel modules, and I haven't put too much thought into
whether it makes sense to make it so.
It allows one to trivially convert an absolute path to a relative path
and the reverse. The test programs themselves are very useful in scripts
but the real use comes shortly with the -r and -a arguments to ln.
These are sometimes known as the --relative and --absolute flags and
can force a symlink to be relative when you only have an absolue path.
Another place these are sometimes used is to add -a and -r args to 'realpath'.
Incredibly useful in Makefiles.
I was going to just add the files in with 'ln' but a library makes more sense.
The test programs may come out in their own right some day for scripting.
released under a BSD 2-clause:
* Copyright (c) 1997 Shigio Yamaguchi. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 1999 Tama Communications Corporation. All rights reserved.
The test directry does not conform to any framework.
Not connected to build.
doc people may want to play with the manual pages.
Obtained from: https://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert.html Shigio Yamaguchi.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Panzura, Tama Communications Corporation