[bug #42690] make unconditionally resolves the current directory

2014-07-05 Thread anonymous 
URL:
  http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42690

 Summary: make unconditionally resolves the current directory
 Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Sat 05 Jul 2014 07:57:46 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
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 Open/Closed: Open
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Details:

{ cd /tmp  mkdir a  ln -sT a b  cd b  make -w; }

make: Entering directory `/tmp/a'

Why not /tmp/b?  Is there an option to prevent this resolution?
I understand that relative path names must be resolved; 
but could you leave directory aliases as they are please?

This hit me when I tried to make in a directory that had a colon in the name;

this caused targets containing $(CURDIR) to be split and resulted in an
error;
I made a symbolic link to avoid the path with colon but it did not work;
make decided it would rather use the original path instead.

And, last but not least, this behaviour is undocumented 
(at least in the info file).





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[bug #42690] make unconditionally resolves the current directory

2014-07-05 Thread Christopher Yeleighton 
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #42690 (project make):




 


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Re: [bug #42690] make unconditionally resolves the current directory

2014-07-05 Thread Philip Guenther 
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:57 PM, anonymous invalid.nore...@gnu.org wrote:

 { cd /tmp  mkdir a  ln -sT a b  cd b  make -w; }

 make: Entering directory `/tmp/a'

 Why not /tmp/b?  Is there an option to prevent this resolution?
 I understand that relative path names must be resolved;
 but could you leave directory aliases as they are please?


The best make would be able to do would be to model its behavior on that of
pwd -L: if the PWD environment variable is set to an absolute path with
no .. or . components that resolves to the process's current directory,
then use that instead of the path from getcwd().


This hit me when I tried to make in a directory that had a colon in the
 name;


Doctor says: Don't do that!   make is only one of many program which you
will have problems with.


Philip Guenther
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