In article <20100514052935.gg26...@netbsd.org>,
David Holland <dholland-sourcechan...@netbsd.org> wrote:
>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.
that would work...
christos
