On 09/07/2012 01:50 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote:
> Indeed, most ebuilds do this correctly although occasionally I've seen
> exceptions. My overlay is for Prefix so it "lucks out" if ebuild
> authors forget this and add the slash; but if/when non-prefix cygwin
> support is resuscitated in Gentoo, all of those extra slashes need to be
> fixed "or else."
So, just submit patches to the relevant maintainers. If their code adds
an extra slash then it's easy to fix by replacing ${ROOT} with
${ROOT%/}, and then it will work correctly regardless of whether ${ROOT}
contains a trailing slash.
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Thanks,
Zac
