Re: [Bug-gnulib] gnulib imports from coreutils for canon-host, human, xgetcwd

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Some platforms have a PATH_MAX value that is not a strong limit, but
> rather a dummy value because many BSD applications don't even
> compile if PATH_MAX does not exist.

Thanks for catching that

> PS: The autoconf test could work somewhat like this:

If anyone pursues this, have a look at getcwd-path-max.m4.
It has almost all of the code required for such an autoconf test.