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To: Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de>
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Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? 
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 02:59:11 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> (totum)(root) # make obj
> /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc created for /usr/src/lib/libc
> (totum)(root) # pwd
> /usr/src/lib/libc
> (totum)(root) # cd /a/src/lib/libc
> (totum)(root) # pwd
> /a/src/lib/libc
> (totum)(root) # make cleandir
> (totum)(root) # make obj
> /usr/obj/a/src/lib/libc created for /a/src/lib/libc
> 
> ??????

Yeah, good question.. :-)

I wonder if getcwd() is somehow becoming confused on your system.
It should return the canonical path and it's clearly not! :(

						Jordan