Relative root paths no longer seem to work

[jhedstrom]

When switching from Drush 8 to Drush 9, I noticed that relative --root paths don't seem to work for providing the core location.

Here's output for a build that exists in build/html:

With relative --root

$> vendor/bin/drush -r build/html status
 PHP binary    : /usr/local/Cellar/php70/7.0.12_5/bin/php
 PHP config    : /usr/local/etc/php/7.0/php.ini
 PHP OS        : Darwin
 Drush script  : /.../vendor/bin/drush
 Drush version : 9.0-dev-g65c2383
 Drush temp    : /tmp
 Drush configs :
 Drush aliases : /.../.drush/aliases.drushrc.php
                 /.../.drush/drupalEight.aliases.drushrc.php

With no --root (behaves the same as with absolute path for root arg)

$> vendor/bin/drush status

 Drupal version : 8.4.0-beta1
 Site URI       : http://default
 PHP binary     : /usr/local/Cellar/php70/7.0.12_5/bin/php
 PHP config     : /usr/local/etc/php/7.0/php.ini
 PHP OS         : Darwin
 Drush script   : /.../vendor/bin/drush
 Drush version  : 9.0-dev-g65c2383
 Drush temp     : /tmp
 Drush configs  :
 Drush aliases  : /.../.drush/aliases.drushrc.php
                  /.../.drush/drupalEight.aliases.drushrc.php
 Drupal root    : /.../build/html
 Site path      : sites/default

[greg-1-anderson]

We're rewriting the bootstrap / preflight at the moment. See #2843. Let's make sure it works there.

[weitzman]

Looks fixed to me.

[pingers]

Relative paths working here too - thanks!

[pjcdawkins]

I've found a relative --root path does not work in Drush 9.5.2. I suppose there was a regression?

[greg-1-anderson]

How about in 9.6.0-rc3?

[greg-1-anderson]

Hm, yes, broken in HEAD of master too.

[pjcdawkins]

Hi @greg-1-anderson I did some digging and opened webflo/drupal-finder#40

(relative paths work in some circumstances in Drush 9. DrupalFinder needs to be able to search upwards from the path, and calling dirname() recursively on a relative path wasn't sufficient, so that PR does realpath() before dirname())

[greg-1-anderson]

Seems to be working for me now in today's HEAD of the master branch. Maybe some of our recent bootstrapping improvements accidentally fixed this.

@pjcdawkins / other interested parties: could you please test and confirm?

[greg-1-anderson]

We'll re-open if this crops up again