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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:43:39 -0700
From:      Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de>, FreeBSD-Current <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Building inside of /usr/src? 
Message-ID:  <m0uZJEK-00060BC@main.statsci.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 02:59:11 -0700." <26037.835869551@time.cdrom.com> 
References:  <26037.835869551@time.cdrom.com> 

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:

> > (totum)(root) # make obj
> > /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc created for /usr/src/lib/libc
> > (totum)(root) # pwd
> > /usr/src/lib/libc
> > (totum)(root) # cd /a/src/lib/libc
> > (totum)(root) # pwd
> > /a/src/lib/libc
> > (totum)(root) # make cleandir
> > (totum)(root) # make obj
> > /usr/obj/a/src/lib/libc created for /a/src/lib/libc
> > 
> > ??????
> 
> Yeah, good question.. :-)
> 
> I wonder if getcwd() is somehow becoming confused on your system.
> It should return the canonical path and it's clearly not! :(

Could it somehow be a shell "builtin" pwd that is looking at a $PWD that
gets set/cleared oddly? Does everyone have the same shell getting run for
the makefile commands? I don't know...just grasping for some straws...:-)

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