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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make main.c
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:59:22AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:22:38AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.bin/make         main.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Make ${.OBJDIR} canonical.
> 
> I don't quite understand what this change is.  Could you explain it in a
> little more depth along with answering the "why" question?
> 
This is documented in the make(1) manpage.

Previously, make(1) only canonicalized ${.CURDIR} but not ${.OBJDIR}.
Now ${.CURDIR} != ${.OBJDIR} test works not only syntactically, but
physically.  This somehow relates to the recent `cleandir' problem.


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