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To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: A style proposal for referring to upper-level directories in
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In message <4E31AED9.4000105@aldan.algebra.com>, "Mikhail T." writes:
>The most common method to refer to the upper directory in Makefile is as 
>${.CURDIR}/..
>
>I'd like to propose we begin using ${.CURDIR:H} instead. 

This will make it even harder for people who try to compile our
bits on alien systems without bmake.

I am not sure if that is a concern we should care about.


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