From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject: Re: Subtle bash/ls/environment bug?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:20:25 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
>
>> I have found the place in configure where the absolute path is set, it
>> uses `pwd`.
>
>I think if you do NOT set PATH_SEPARATOR=:, `pwd` will return the normal 
>DOS-style path like h:/foo/bar, and everything will work.
>
>If you need to set PATH_SEPARATOR=: elsewhere in the script/Makefile, 
>just unset it on the particular command line that calls `pwd`.
>
>Alternatively, you could replace `pwd` with something like this:
>
>	`pwd | sed -e s,^//\([A-z]\)/,\1:/,`

Thanks again for alternatives.  I think what I'll do is put a DJGPP
conditional around the setting that uses `pwd` and use your last
suggestion as the action when making for DJGPP.

Thanks again for the (very!) helpful suggestions.

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