From db74ccee9b9ade37cedaa1655806152a4dce6301 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Achim Gsell <achim.gsell@psi.ch>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:54:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] modulecmd: better error message if configuration file is not
 readable

---
 Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in b/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in
index 9ec252a..9e3412d 100644
--- a/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in
+++ b/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in
@@ -451,10 +451,11 @@ pm::read_config(){
 	if [[ -v PMODULES_CONFIG_FILE && -n "${PMODULES_CONFIG_FILE}" ]]; then
 		sys_config_file="${PMODULES_HOME%%/Tools*}/config/${PMODULES_CONFIG_FILE}"
 	fi
+	sys_config_file=$(readlink "${sys_config_file}")
 	test -r "${sys_config_file}" || \
 		std::die 3 \
 			 "%s %s -- %s" \
-			 "base overlay definition file" \
+			 "Configuration file " \
 			 "does not exist or is not readable" \
 			 "$_"
 	DefaultGroups="${DefaultPmodulesConfig['default_groups']}"