[BUG v2017.07.0] readlink -f command broken?

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

HI,

	I wrote the symlink support in barebox

	But I Worte a partial support only end path file not dirs

	As this is a boot loader not an OS

Best Regards,
J.
> On 30 Jun 2017, at 9:28 PM, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I know there were changes to do with links to directories in v2017.07.0, but this looks like a bug in readlink with the -f option:
> 
> barebox at fred:/ ls -l /mnt/root
> lrwxrwxrwx              7 bin -> usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x            304 boot
> drwxr-xr-x            160 dev
> drwxr-xr-x           1920 etc
> drwxrwsr-x            160 home
> lrwxrwxrwx              7 lib -> usr/lib
> drwxr-xr-x            160 mnt
> dr-xr-xr-x            160 proc
> drwx------            160 root
> drwxr-xr-x            160 run
> lrwxrwxrwx              8 sbin -> usr/sbin
> drwxr-xr-x            224 srv
> drwxr-xr-x            160 sys
> drwxrwxrwt            160 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x            480 usr
> drwxr-xr-x            544 var
> barebox at fred:/ readlink -f /mnt/root/lib libdir
> barebox at fred:/ echo $libdir
> /usr
> 
> (I expected $libdir to contain "/mnt/root/usr/lib" here, as it did in barebox v2017.06.1.)
> 
> (Let's try it without the -f option....)
> 
> barebox at fred:/ readlink /mnt/root/lib libdir2
> barebox at fred:/ echo $libdir2
> usr/lib
> 
> (That is the same as barebox v2017.06.1.)
> 
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