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-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index 50453dde..9a3b1ee3 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ sub lei_init {
         $dir //= _store_path($env);
         $dir = File::Spec->rel2abs($dir, $env->{PWD}); # PWD is symlink-aware
         my @cur = stat($cur) if defined($cur);
-        $cur = File::Spec->canonpath($cur) if $cur;
+        $cur = File::Spec->canonpath($cur // $dir);
         my @dir = stat($dir);
         my $exists = "I: leistore.dir=$cur already initialized" if @dir;
         if (@cur) {