Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:11:20 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD-Current <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <m0uZJf7-000608C@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:50:37 %2B0200." <Pine.BSI.3.94.960627174812.7404D-100000@totum.plaut.de> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960627174812.7404D-100000@totum.plaut.de>
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Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de> wrote:
> > Could it somehow be a shell "builtin" pwd that is looking at a $PWD that
> > gets set/cleared oddly? Does everyone have the same shell getting run for
> > the makefile commands? I don't know...just grasping for some straws...:-)
> >
>
> It's worse than that:
>
> (totum)(root) # which pwd
> pwd: aliased to echo $cwd
>
> It is defined in my ~/.tcshrc
Does removing it from there actually fix the problem?
Well...the reason I was saying "grasping for some straws" was that I assumed
that the make file would be using /bin/sh to run its commands and use a pwd
command that _shouldn't_ be influenced by the environment at all. I think
I've heard people (one of those vague recollections from the recesses of my
mind) talk about "smart" pwd commands that look at the inherited $PWD and,
if it is still in that directory, will use $PWD. If the current directory
isn't the same as $PWD, it would do a real getcwd() since the $PWD has
obviously been inherited thru programs that don't maintain it (e.g. /bin/sh,
typically). Could that kind of stuff being going on here?
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
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