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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# POSIX shell implementation of `realpath --relative-to=$1 $2.
+# This is an adaptation of the implementation from
+# <https://github.com/Offirmo/offirmo-shell-lib>.
+
+# returns relative path to $2=$target from $1=$source
+## NOTE : path are compared in text only. They don’t have to exist
+##        and they WONT be normalized/escaped
+## Result in "$return_value"# both $1 and $2 are absolute paths beginning with /
+
+src="$1"
+target="$2"
+
+common_part="$src"
+result=""
+
+while test "${target#$common_part}" = "${target}" ; do
+    #echo "common_part is now : \"$common_part\""
+    #echo "result is now      : \"$result\""
+    #echo "target#common_part : \"${target#$common_part}\""
+    # no match, means that candidate common part is not correct
+    # go up one level (reduce common part)
+    common_part="$(dirname "$common_part")"
+    # and record that we went back
+    if test -z "$result" ; then
+        result=".."
+    else
+        result="../$result"
+    fi
+done
+
+#echo "common_part is     : \"$common_part\""
+
+if test "$common_part" = "/" ; then
+    # special case for root (no common path)
+    result="$result/"
+fi
+
+# since we now have identified the common part,
+# compute the non-common part
+forward_part="${target#$common_part}"
+#echo "forward_part = \"$forward_part\""
+
+if test -n "$result" && test -n "$forward_part" ; then
+    #echo "(simple concat)"
+    result="$result$forward_part"
+elif test -n "$forward_part" ; then
+    #echo "(concat with slash removal)"
+    result="$(printf "%s" "$forward_part" | cut -c 1-)"
+fi
+
+printf "%s" "$result"