From 47905789537df7bbe52905ff3771c02585ff7674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:11:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tools: Try harder to collapse ../ components in AbsPath

Idea from Angus Gratton, ANU
---
 src/tools/EPICS/Path.pm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/tools/EPICS/Path.pm b/src/tools/EPICS/Path.pm
index ba6ad4a9b..83a91efb3 100644
--- a/src/tools/EPICS/Path.pm
+++ b/src/tools/EPICS/Path.pm
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ sub AbsPath {
 
     # Now calculate the absolute path
     my $abs = File::Spec->rel2abs($path, abs_path($cwd));
+    $abs = abs_path($abs) if -e $abs;
 
     return LocalPath($abs);
 }