[Toybox] Did I mention why I didn't implement out of tree build?

[Jarno Mäkipää]

It seems that gmail stopped receiving emails from list again. I got
kicked out of list for excessive bounces yesterday... Somehow gmail
worked for month or two after I complained about it last time.

-Jarno

> Hi Rob,

> I saw this email and thought this patch might help make
> `relative_path()` better.
>
> Commit Message:
> While trying to add features to `readlink` and `realpath` I saw that
> adding a "/" to the end of the `from` variable, made it possible for
> me to get `realpath --relative-to=DIR` to work.

> The change seems like a hack, but I saw Rob's email
> https://www.mail-archive.com/toybox@lists.landley.net/msg06136.html
> and though this might be able to help. This works for `realpath`
> because `--relative-to` is only supposed to take a directory.

> ~Andrew

> PS: I hope this email looks correct. I made it by hand because of
> Gmail deciding not to give me the original message.

> https://www.mail-archive.com/toybox@lists.landley.net/msg06136.html
> > On 08 Nov 2019 18:27:44 -0800, Rob via Toybox wrote:
> > In theory if you're using toybox cp you can use a relative path, which was part
> > of why I did relative_path but darn it it's STILL broken: