Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:33:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? Message-ID: <7890.835914838@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:08:54 PDT." <m0uZPF8-000604C@main.statsci.com>
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> user's view of the world. So, if you're doing a "tell me what my current > directory is" function and that is to be displayed back to the user, it'd > be nice to show the user something that the user expects to see. So, now, Nice, but hard to make work in all instances. I'll take robustness over a nice appearance. :-) > I don't know enough about the internals and all of the places that this is > used to be able to say if it'd be safe to revert the behavior in 'make' > itself, but maybe there could be a function added that just returns the > "real" getcwd() (or just grab the output from a /bin/pwd run). It did do this, the problem is that it then overlayed a perfectly good "trusted" value for the current directory and then spammed over it with the value of $PWD. Jordan
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