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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-08-11T19·03+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-08-11T19·03+0000
commit62fe5c4a22453c763e967f04bda062df8241c487 (patch)
tree60697c4c48402fb3f7b32260e19420edd973cff9 /src/libstore
parentae1a1efa410fa66a0afbfae25ad423feee4b1e77 (diff)
* The predecessor of a successor need not be present. This in
  particular happens on distributed builds or when using push/pull.

Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstore')
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/normalise.cc10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/normalise.cc b/src/libstore/normalise.cc
index 309c1777f7df..b3282b146be8 100644
--- a/src/libstore/normalise.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/normalise.cc
@@ -297,11 +297,13 @@ const char * * strings2CharPtrs(const Strings & ss)
 /* Should only be called after an expression has been normalised. */
 Path queryNormalForm(const Path & nePath)
 {
-    StoreExpr ne = storeExprFromPath(nePath);
-    if (ne.type == StoreExpr::neClosure) return nePath;
     Path nfPath;
-    if (!querySuccessor(nePath, nfPath)) abort();
-    return nfPath;
+    if (querySuccessor(nePath, nfPath)) return nfPath;
+    /* If there is no successor, than nePath must be a normal form
+       itself. */
+    StoreExpr ne = storeExprFromPath(nePath);
+    if (ne.type != StoreExpr::neClosure) abort();
+    return nePath;
 }