On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:49:13PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Heh, the shell does set PWD, but does not export it. If I explicitly > say "export PWD", before "make bootstrap" it seems to work.
Weird. > > I've been considering disabling ln -s support. It's too fragile, > > though this is the first report of it actually failing I've seen by > > email; someone mentioned similar problems on IRC. > > Don't know how many broken shells are out there. Actually, I don't > think the OpenBSD sh(1) is broken, at least not according to POSIX. > Is explicitly exporting PWD at an appropriate point an option? It's listed as an environment variable; I would have expected that to mean it was exported, but I'm not willing to call it broken. We could probably arrange an appropriate export, but I think it would be smarter to avoid the dependence; POSIX is pretty clear on the allowed canonicalizations of $PWD, but the definition is twisty enough that I'm sure some shells get it wrong. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
