Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/29/04:30:10.1
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2001, 386sx wrote:
>
>> > I can't imagine people could do that in their CDPATH, since if they
>> > do, "cd foo" cannot chdir into a subdirectory `foo' of the current
>> > directory.
>>
>> True only if there is a "foo'' subdirectory within a directory in
>> CDPATH. If "." isn't included in CDPATH cd acts as if "." were the
>> last entry.
>
> Then why did "cd intl" fail in the GDB build procedure?
>
> It sounds like I didn't really understand the reason for this problem,
> so please tell some more about this. Since this issue is not specific
> to DJGPP, it will probably require some changes in the GDB configure
> scripts, and I'd like to be able to explain this to the GDB
> maintainers.
I think the answer is not the interactive bash, but bash's POSIX
non-interactive alter-ego (SHELL=/bin/sh) :
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File: bashref.info, Node: Bash Startup Files, Next: Interactive Shells,
Prev: Invoking Bash, Up: Bash Features
Bash Startup Files
[...]
Invoked with name `sh'
......................
[...]
If Bash is invoked with the name `sh', it tries to mimic the startup
behavior of historical versions of `sh' as closely as possible, while
conforming to the POSIX standard as well.
[...]
When invoked as `sh', Bash enters POSIX mode after the startup files
are read.
[...]
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File: bashref.info, Node: Bash POSIX Mode, Prev: The Restricted Shell,
Up: Bash Features
Bash POSIX Mode
===============
Starting Bash with the `--posix' command-line option or executing
`set -o posix' while Bash is running will cause Bash to conform more
closely to the POSIX 1003.2 standard by changing the behavior to match
that specified by POSIX in areas where the Bash default differs.
The following list is what's changed when `POSIX mode' is in effect:
[...]
19. If `CDPATH' is set, the `cd' builtin will not implicitly append
the current directory to it. This means that `cd' will fail if no
valid directory name can be constructed from any of the entries in
`$CDPATH', even if the a directory with the same name as the name
given as an argument to `cd' exists in the current directory.
[...]
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