Re: PATCH: add relative_file_name procedure to encapsulate logic for "subdir" variable

[Ben Elliston]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:56:30PM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:

> This is part of my ongoing efforts to improve DejaGnu's integration
> with Automake.  I think that "relative_file_name" could be a useful
> utility procedure and will be able to fill any remaining gaps when
> subdir is eventually deprecated.  This also replaces two slightly
> different ways of deriving what should be the same value.

What you have written is very similar to the UNIX realpath(1) utility
with the --relative-to option. Can you perhaps rename your proc to
realpath_relative?

Cheers,
Ben

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