Re: make: evaluation of symbolic link with ../ fails

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:20:14 +0100 "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that all except csh (including bourne shell !) are > broken !! Amazing ! None of them cope properly actually following > symbolic links, they all make false premise the /some_path/.. == > /some_path !

Re: make: evaluation of symbolic link with ../ fails

2007-11-06 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:20:14PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > It seems to me that all except csh (including bourne shell !) are > broken !! Amazing ! None of them cope properly actually following > symbolic links, they all make false premise the /some_path/.. == > /some_path ! This may be a

Re: make: evaluation of symbolic link with ../ fails

2007-11-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> broken !! Amazing ! None of them cope properly actually following > symbolic links, they all make false premise the /some_path/.. == > /some_path ! Sorry, typo, should have been: they all make false premise that /some_path/something/.. == /some_path -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultan

Re: make: evaluation of symbolic link with ../ fails

2007-11-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Harti cc Hackers, Thanks for answer. > Are you sure that this is not a problem with /bin/sh? Good question ! I think you'r right. I tested several shells with [ Effectively: ln -s /usra/jhs/xtra/pics /usra/home/jhs/pics ] + source `which unsetenv.csh` [ sh, bash, csh,

Re: make: evaluation of symbolic link with ../ fails

2007-11-05 Thread Harti Brandt
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Julian Stacey wrote: JS>I found some unexpected behaviour within make on 6.2-RELEASE, JS>Not sure if it's a bug, or proper behaviour. Comment please ? JS> JS>Make seems to be being too clever, evaluating where it JS>think the CWD (current working directory) is, whereas I think

make: evaluation of symbolic link with ../ fails

2007-11-04 Thread Julian Stacey
I found some unexpected behaviour within make on 6.2-RELEASE, Not sure if it's a bug, or proper behaviour. Comment please ? Make seems to be being too clever, evaluating where it think the CWD (current working directory) is, whereas I think it should better let the external per line shell discover