On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:10:39AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Revert bogus patch that attempted to canonicalize a non absolute
> argv[0] using realpath(3). Consider: touch Makefile; mkdir make;
> make. This will set $MAKE to $PWD/make so further attempts to use
> ${MAKE} will try to execute the directory. This needs $ORIGIN to be
> fixed properly, or alternatively one can duplicate the logic for
> execvp(3) and search the path for the make executable. Not worth
> it. It was working just fine before!
It wasn't really; the specific point was to cause
% ../../tooldir-*/bin/nbmake-foo [whatever]
to not break if it recursed into a subdir, which is a fairly common
case (for me at least).
It should have been leaving argv[0] alone if it didn't contain a '/',
though.
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David A. Holland
dholl...@netbsd.org
