Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:35:23 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: markm@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc Message-ID: <199810120635.XAA26486@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199810120600.XAA25464@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199810120600.XAA25464@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> markm 1998/10/11 23:00:31 PDT
>
> Modified files:
> gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile.inc
> Log:
> Damn - dirname(1) is not available this early. Work-around.
FWIW, you can get the same effect in the shell with "${foo%/*}":
vashon$ sh
$ foo=/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/Makefile
$ echo ${foo%/*}
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin
John
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