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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40281] New: - "Cannot resolve path" error thrown gratuitously

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           Summary: "Cannot resolve path" error thrown gratuitously
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.6.5
          Platform: All
               URL: http://www.netbeans.org/nonav/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=828
                    33
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P3
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: jglick@netbeans.org
        ReportedBy: jglick@netbeans.org
                CC: dev@ant.apache.org


FileUtils.normalize throws an undocumented BuildException if passed a string
such as "/a/../../b". Clearly it cannot normalize the ".." sequences. But IMHO
it is better to simply leave the path alone in this case. For example, the
referenced NB bug refers to a build script which has

<path id="...">
  <!-- try one thing -->
  <pathelement location="lib/something.jar"/>
  <!-- if that was invalid, try another thing -->
  <pathelement location="../../lib/something-else.jar"/>
</path>

You expect missing or invalid entries to simply be ignored, and that is what
usually happens. But if the basedir of the project happens to be e.g. "c:\foo"
then you will instead get

Cannot resolve path: c:\foo\..\..\lib\something-else.jar

which is true but not what you care about.

Patch corrects this so normalize just quietly returns the unnormalized path.

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jglick@netbeans.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
   Target Milestone|---                         |1.7




------- Additional Comments From jglick@netbeans.org  2006-08-17 20:21 -------
rev 432379

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