Re: Problem with symlinks and VPATH Builds

[Akim Demaille]

| > From: "Mark D. Roth" <address@hidden>
| > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:31:13 -0500
| > 
| > I've attached a patch that does this.  It passes the test suite, so if
| > I don't hear any objections in the next couple of days, I'll commit
| > this to CVS.
| 
| I don't like this patch, for two reasons:
| 
|   * The output of "/bin/pwd" is often much uglier than the output of
|     "pwd" (or $PWD).
| 
|   * Sometimes /bin/pwd fails when plain pwd would succeed.  Here's
|     a contrived example:
| 
|         $ cd /tmp
|         $ mkdir -p d/e
|         $ cd d/e
|         $ chmod 0 /tmp/d
|         $ pwd
|         /tmp/d/e
|         $ /bin/pwd
|         pwd: cannot determine current directory!
| 
|     More-realistic examples are quite common in practice.

Wow.  Paul, would you install this in autoconf.texi?

I'm at work, and cut from the internet: no ssh, no cvs, just mail and
web :(