From be1961c9f8fbf71ab8ba7ba7a2da5dbb21be54b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:07:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * toPath: should be the identity on paths.

---
 src/libexpr/primops.cc | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 6b4858d800..e6c3958d34 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -343,9 +343,7 @@ static Expr primToString(EvalState & state, const ATermVector & args)
 static Expr primToPath(EvalState & state, const ATermVector & args)
 {
     PathSet context;
-    string path = evalString(state, args[0], context);
-    if (path == "" || path[0] != '/')
-        throw EvalError("string doesn't represent an absolute path in `toPath'");
+    string path = coerceToPath(state, args[0], context);
     return makeStr(canonPath(path), context);
 }