> On 03 Apr 2015, at 15:55, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> rootdir="$(cd "${0%/*}" 2>/dev/null; echo "$PWD")" >> >> ${0} - executable path. like shell >> ${0%/*} - get parent directory of this path >> $(cd ${0%/*}) - execute a shell command >> since cd changes current directory, it also updates environment >> variable $PWD according it. In case of success you'll be moved to >> somewhere like /bin (for me) > > TL;DR that script is to find full path of an executed script and > ensure that location is accessible and set rootdir with the directory > path where those configure script is located.
Thanks! I assume this is for cases where people do /path/to/couchdb/configure, right? Best Jan --
