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Re: 3.2 PATCH: Avoid hardcoded uses of pwd

On May 15, 2002, Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:

> i.e. PWDCMD remains in the environment, but is set to the literal value
> from the Makefile ;-(

Argh!  Yes, that's right, most makes export Makefile variables in the
environment.

> I'm going for this variant instead:

> PWD = $${PWDCMD-pwd}

Excellent, thanks.  Bonus points for adding a comment explaining why
the macro can't be named PWDCMD :-)

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