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Re: Problem with symlinks and VPATH Builds


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Problem with symlinks and VPATH Builds
Date: 25 Jul 2002 13:06:13 +0200
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| > From: "Mark D. Roth" <address@hidden>
| > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:02:53 -0500
| > 
| > On Tue Jul 23 13:31 2002 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
| > > I'd rather try $PWD, then pwd, and fall back on /bin/pwd only if the
| > > other two methods don't work.  That way, the names will be nicer.
| > 
| > That won't solve the problem, specifically because $PWD and pwd give
| > the "nice" path names.  The problem is that ksh is trying to interpret
| > relative paths based on the string in $PWD rather than by actually
| > traversing the ".." links
| 
| OK, now I understand the problem.  I also see that the problem occurs
| even in absolute path names.  For example, with /bin/ksh on Solaris 8:
| 
| 33-sic $ ls -ld /tmp/usr/local/src/dummy-0.1/../../common
| drwxrwxr-x   3 eggert   eggert       183 Jul 24 01:54 
/tmp/usr/local/src/dummy-0.1/../../common
| 34-sic $ cd /tmp/usr/local/src/dummy-0.1/../../common
| /bin/ksh: /tmp/usr/local/src/dummy-0.1/../../common:  not found
| 
| What a botch!

It would be nice to document this one too...



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