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Re: pwd vs $PWD, bash, cygwin vs Linux
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:10:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: pwd vs $PWD, bash, cygwin vs Linux
- References: <4278209B.1050903@itee.uq.edu.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:08:43AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
>Essentially under Cygwin the PWD variable seems to be "frozen" at its
>value upon first launching Make from the commandline, while under Linux
>it is being updated for each child process spawned by `make -C XXX`
>
>I know that Cygwin != Linux, however is it a reasonable expectation
>that under the same shells, the same behaviour should apply?
In this case, the operative observation is bash != ash. PWD is a bash
construct. You would be much better off just using the gnu make
"CURDIR" variable. Changing PWD to CURDIR in your examples makes things
work as you'd expect.
cgf
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