From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 7 10: 8:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from calliope.cs.brandeis.edu (calliope.cs.brandeis.edu [129.64.3.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B902737B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meshko@calliope.cs.brandeis.edu) Received: from localhost (meshko@localhost) by calliope.cs.brandeis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00388; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:08:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:08:14 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Kruk To: Nate Williams Cc: Ernst de Haan , Mike Murphree , Subject: Re: Differences in jdk1.2.2-beta? In-Reply-To: <15014.30195.431085.1919@nomad.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > No, 'java' doesn't, but the shell does. Try to execute this: > > > > echo ~ > > > > This gives me, on bash: > > > > /home/ernst > > > > I tested this on 'sh' and 'tcsh' too, both work the same as bash in this > > respect. > > I know the shell does, but does the expansion occur in the middle of the > argument, ie; '.....:~/.....' I don't believe it does, but I could be > wrong. I know that we had some problems with this in our Makefiles, but > in retrospect, make uses /bin/sh, which does not do expansion. No, you can't be wrong ;) well, not this time at least. I've spent enough of my time (and more than once unfortunately) fighting this problem. ~ is not expanded in this situation. Use full path. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message