* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010402 01:32]: > On 20010402T030737-0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > So, what is the provenance of this CURDIR variable? Has it > > been blessed by POSIX? indeed not. > > I believe this is irrelevant, as portable make is next to useless.
I'll admit I don't know make very well, but a cursory read-through of O'Reilly's make book did not give me this impression. Furthermore, there is no need to complicate matters worse -- if CURDIR is not portable but PWD is portable, then only nutters would suggest using CURDIR instead of PWD. (Apologies to the original poster; I figure the portability issue was unknown to him or her.) There is no need to go out of our way to make software unportable. (*sigh* Lookit me ma! Me know English good!) -- Earthlink: The #1 provider of unsolicited bulk email to the Internet.
