It is a portable version of the realpath(1) utility that you can find on
Mac OS X and FreeBSD (see also The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
6, IEEE Std 1003.1).

Without the -P flag, pwd(1) might return different values when the
current path contains one or more symlinks, depending on how you got
into the current directory.

In simplenode.runner, this may cause PIPE_DIR to have different values
on each use, which will make it impossible to connect to the running
node unless you guess the correct path yourself.

This patch corrects the vm.args behavior while building upgrade tarballs
by copying the file from the release into the upgrade. Additionally it
patches the dummy runner script in the upgrade test project to work
properly.

app.config has been a long standing erroneous file in rebar. Erlang/OTP
documentation suggests a sys.config file instead. This file is stored in
the releases/VSN directory. This does a few things but most importantly
it ensures your config (contained in the application environment)
survives a hot upgrade. It also has the advantage of allowing the
configuration of the application to be versioned along side the
application code. This patch flips rebar to use sys.config rather than
app.config.

Additionally it makes this flip to vm.args as well, making them
versioned just like sys.config.

This patch also includes runner script changes to support the old
etc/app.config config file location and support for Windows.

Thanks to mokele for the initial work and kick in the pants to make this
finially happen.

To support OTP release upgrades I have added support for building
upgrade packages. Support for this is included in the
rebar_upgrade module, specifically generate_upgrade/2. It requires
one variable to be set on the command line 'previous_release' which
is the absolute path or relative path from 'rel/' to the previous
release one is upgrading from. Running an upgrade will create the
needed files, including a relup and result in a tarball containing
the upgrade being written to 'rel/'. When done it cleans up the
temporary files systools created.

Usage:
$ rebar generate-upgrade previous_release=/path/to/old/version

This also includes a dummy application that can be used to test
upgrades as well as an example.

Special thanks to Daniel Reverri, Jesper Louis Andersen and
Richard Jones for comments and patches.

missing from the PIPE_DIR definition above, the application won't start and
doesn't log any thing to the expected locations.