From 82b3ed83d4cef6105afe4bee645e61991836509e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Martin <ken.martin@kitware.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:50:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] handle tildas

---
 Source/cmSystemTools.cxx | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
index 903e31c20..c896ca879 100644
--- a/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx
@@ -486,6 +486,16 @@ const char *cmSystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(std::string& path)
     {
     path = path.substr(0, path.size()-1);
     }
+
+  // if there is a tilda ~ then replace it with HOME
+  if(path.find("~") == 0)
+    {
+    if (getenv("HOME"))
+      {
+      path = std::string(getenv("HOME")) + path.substr(1);
+      }
+    }
+  
   // if there is a /tmp_mnt in a path get rid of it!
   // stupid sgi's 
   if(path.find("/tmp_mnt") == 0)