Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:08:14 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>, Mike Murphree <n4cnw@knology.net>, <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Differences in jdk1.2.2-beta? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103071307220.32765-100000@calliope.cs.brandeis.edu> In-Reply-To: <15014.30195.431085.1919@nomad.yogotech.com>
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> > 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
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