From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 27 08:44:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06945 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com ([198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06939 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uZJEK-00060BC; Thu, 27 Jun 96 08:43 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Michael Reifenberger , FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: Building inside of /usr/src? References: <26037.835869551@time.cdrom.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 02:59:11 -0700." <26037.835869551@time.cdrom.com> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:43:39 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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...:-) Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org