On 11/11/2024 08.19, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
configure checks if it is executed in the source directory by comparing
the literal paths, but there may be multiple representations of a
directory due to symbolic links. Use the -ef operator to tell if they
point to the same directory.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.od...@daynix.com>
---
configure | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index aa7aae70fa1b..853fa0b81f70 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ export CCACHE_RECACHE=yes
# make source path absolute
source_path=$(cd "$(dirname -- "$0")"; pwd)
-if test "$PWD" = "$source_path"
+if test "$PWD" -ef "$source_path"
then
echo "Using './build' as the directory for build output"
Looking at
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html it
sounds like "-ef" is not part of all posix compliant shells? Did you check
whether it is working with all of our destination host types?
Thomas
