[adding bug-autoconf] On 06/20/2012 08:10 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> This addresses symptoms of the problem reported by Nelson H.F. Beebe in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2012-06/msg00008.html>. > Although Nelson's bug was not necessarily fixed by this patch, > it seems wise to make the change for safety. > * tests/init.sh (path_prepend_): Do not rely on PWD updating > automagically after 'cd'; this is not reliable on older shells. This is a portability pitfall; do we know which shells suffer from this POSIX non-compliance bug, and whether they are still in active use, so that we can document the problems of PWD and/or make autoconf smart enough to guarantee a shell with a working PWD? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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