don't abs_path($ENV{MR_CONFIG})

mrconfig files can be symlinks to files in other directories. But the directory
the file is is significant, as it's the directory paths in the file
are relative to. abs_path follows the symlink, so take care not to use it.

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index 44ff395aa684425cc972797a140049cfc032bac0..53f7a068c9b437efd249a1de87f9699aab4db459 100755 (executable)
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ my %alias;
 Getopt::Long::Configure("no_permute");
 my $result=GetOptions(
        "d|directory=s" => sub { $directory=abs_path($_[1]) },
-       "c|config=s" => sub { $ENV{MR_CONFIG}=abs_path($_[1]) },
+       "c|config=s" => \$ENV{MR_CONFIG},
        "v|verbose" => \$verbose,
        "s|stats" => \$stats,
        "n|no-recurse" => \$no_recurse,
@@ -283,6 +283,13 @@ if (! $result || @ARGV < 1) {
 
 }
 
+# Make sure MR_CONFIG is an absolute path, but don't use abs_path since
+# the config file might be a symlink to elsewhere, and the directory it's
+# in is significant.
+if ($ENV{MR_CONFIG} !~ /^\//) {
+       $ENV{MR_CONFIG}=getcwd()."/".$ENV{MR_CONFIG};
+}
+
 loadconfig(\*DATA);
 loadconfig($ENV{MR_CONFIG});
 #use Data::Dumper;
@@ -325,6 +332,8 @@ elsif ($action eq 'config') {
        if ($section=~/^\//) {
                # try to convert to a path relative to the config file
                my ($dir)=$ENV{MR_CONFIG}=~/^(.*\/)[^\/]+$/;
+               $dir=abs_path($dir);
+               $dir.="/" unless $dir=~/\/$/;
                if ($section=~/^\Q$dir\E(.*)/) {
                        $section=$1;
                }