X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44EC8637.7050104@byu.net> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:45:43 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh References: <022f01c6c6c2$9937bdc0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> In-Reply-To: <022f01c6c6c2$9937bdc0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 8/23/2006 8:44 AM: > > 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. Which by my reading of POSIX is a bug in bash; POSIX requires cd to implicitly consider . after exhausting CDPATH. But to date, my pleas upstream to get this fixed have fallen on deaf ears. So in the meantime, I always make sure that my CDPATH ends in a colon. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7IY384KuGfSFAYARAmY6AKCqh3Wf9zz3n08Tf8lBEP+nH7qu2QCaAzPq 06C7/zZiB5dvX16Y1ws7mxI= =mb81 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/