For portability; the realpath command (e.g. from GNU coreutils) is not so common outside Linux systems.
The "$(cd emacs && pwd -P)" replaces that realpath(1) execution suitably in this context (using just bash(1) builtins). --- Quotes ("") added for it to be better example for someone(tm) who may look it while writing some other shell script elsewhere; here, as $IFS characters are not (currently!) allowed in $PWD those makes no difference... configure | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 40e8b255..cfa9c09b 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@ EOF if [ $WITH_PYTHON_DOCS = "1" ]; then echo "tags.add('WITH_PYTHON')" fi - printf "rsti_dir = '%s'\n" $(realpath emacs) + printf "rsti_dir = '%s'\n" "$(cd emacs && pwd -P)" } > sphinx.config # Finally, after everything configured, inform the user how to continue. -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org