Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:07:18 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@freebsd.org, nate@mt.sri.com, scott@statsci.com Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <4511.835988838@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jun 1996 21:24:11 %2B1000." <199606281124.VAA24857@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> I think PWD can be trusted to be NOT set except at the top level. It
> isn't supported by /bin/sh, and it shouldn't be exported, so for
> `cd $subdir; make', PWD is never set. Thus PWD is very rarely set
> except for developers who cd to a bottom level directory and invoke
> make there. Then it is convenient for ${.CURDIR} and ${.OBJDIR} to
> be short paths through symlinks.
Hmmm. So to answer my earlier question, if I put this functionality
back into make (and again, I have absolutely NO problem with this)
it's acceptable for us to say that anyone munging PWD deserves to
lose?
Jordan
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