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Re: What does PWD = $${PWDCMD-pwd} do in make?
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- To: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 03 Jul 2003 19:31:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: What does PWD = $${PWDCMD-pwd} do in make?
- References: <20030703005507.GA22350@lucon.org> <200307030113.h631D3i01211@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20030703161224.GA7077@lucon.org> <87isqjtuxs.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
"Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I don't think there's any reason why we couldn't change this to read
>
> PWDCMD = $${PWDCMD-pwd}
>
> and change all uses of ${PWD} to ${PWDCMD}. Anyone know different?
See the patch submission
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-05/msg01293.html
and the comments in both toplevel and gcc Makefile.in.
Rainer
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