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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:53:16 -0800
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   make -C and ${.CURDIR}
Message-ID:  <20021228235338.GA881@lizzy.catnook.com>

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Consider:

    lizzy:/tmp% cat foo/Makefile 
    bar:
	    @echo curdir is ${.CURDIR}
    lizzy:/tmp% make -C foo bar
    curdir is /tmp
    lizzy:/tmp% 

Would it not make more sense for .CURDIR to be set to /tmp/foo? As it stands,

    /tmp# make -C /usr/src world

fails because of this.

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