[bug #42690] make unconditionally resolves the current directory

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42690>

                 Summary: make unconditionally resolves the current directory
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 05 Jul 2014 07:57:46 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: None
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           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

{ cd /tmp && mkdir a && ln -sT a b && cd b && make -w; }

make: Entering directory `/tmp/a'

Why not /tmp/b?  Is there an option to prevent this resolution?
I understand that relative path names must be resolved; 
but could you leave directory aliases as they are please?

This hit me when I tried to make in a directory that had a colon in the name;

this caused targets containing $(CURDIR) to be split and resulted in an
error;
I made a symbolic link to avoid the path with colon but it did not work;
make decided it would rather use the original path instead.

And, last but not least, this behaviour is undocumented 
(at least in the info file).





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