Merge mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-10986

get_full_path ()

{

  case $1 in

    /*)	echo "$1";;

    ./*) tmp=`pwd`/$1; echo $tmp | sed -e 's;/\./;/;' ;;

     *) which $1 ;;

  file=$1

  # if the file is a symlink, try to resolve it

  if [ -h $file ];

  then

    file=`ls -l $file | awk '{ print $NF }'`

  fi

  case $file in

    /*) echo "$file";;

    */*) tmp=`pwd`/$file; echo $tmp | sed -e 's;/\./;/;' ;;

    *) which $file ;;

  esac

}