ENH: Remove obscure method from KWSys SystemTools

This removes SystemTools::FileExistsInParentDirectories from KWSys since
it is a special-purpose method that is not generally useful.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx b/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx
index 2dd3213..928dc37 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx
+++ b/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx
@@ -4000,29 +4000,6 @@ bool SystemTools::IsSubDirectory(const char* cSubdir, const char* cDir)
   return false;
 }
 
-kwsys_stl::string SystemTools::FileExistsInParentDirectories(const char* fname,
-  const char* directory, const char* toplevel)
-{
-  kwsys_stl::string file = fname;
-  SystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(file);
-  kwsys_stl::string dir = directory;
-  SystemTools::ConvertToUnixSlashes(dir);
-  while ( !dir.empty() )
-    {
-    kwsys_stl::string path = dir + "/" + file;
-    if ( SystemTools::FileExists(path.c_str()) )
-      {
-      return path;
-      }
-    if ( dir.size() < strlen(toplevel) )
-      {
-      break;
-      }
-    dir = SystemTools::GetParentDirectory(dir.c_str());
-    }
-  return "";
-}
-
 void SystemTools::Delay(unsigned int msec)
 {
 #ifdef _WIN32