make tlmgr unify the location with Cwd::abs_path so that / and \ (and

probably some other things) are treated correctly.


git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@10489 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index 012859a2f00..6a29a46133c 100755
--- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -836,6 +836,8 @@ sub action_option {
     # changes the default location
     my $loc = shift @ARGV;
     if ($loc) {
+      # normalize the path
+      $loc = abs_path($loc);
       print "Setting default installation source to $loc!\n";
       $localtlpdb->option_location($loc);
       $localtlpdb->save;
@@ -1034,6 +1036,8 @@ sub init_local_db {
   if (!defined($location)) {
     die("No installation source found, nor in the texlive.tlpdb nor on the cmd line.\nPlease specify one!");
   }
+  # normalize the location
+  $location = abs_path($location);
 }
 
 sub action_gui {