On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:50:30AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes: > > Manoj> So, what is the provenance of this CURDIR variable? Has it > Manoj> been blessed by POSIX? indeed not. However, I see that both $PWD and > Manoj> the pwd utility are sanctioned by POSIX; so for maximal portability > Manoj> scripts should *NOT* use CURDIR, the should either use PWD, or call > Manoj> pwd themselves, like the example did. > > I know it is bad form replying to oneself, but, after some > sleep, I realize that the provenance of CURDIR being a convenience > variable set by GNU make is as valid as anything POSIX says. What? Manoj, prone to knee-jerk conservativism? Never. /me grins evilly and hides -- G. Branden Robinson | There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian GNU/Linux | if he doesn't know whether he believes branden@debian.org | in it or not. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Graham Chapman
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