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 -- 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/