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Re: [rfa/testsuite] Fix completion.exp on relative srcdir path


On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:43:34PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > I always configure with relative paths - srcdir = ../../../src/gdb/testsuite
> > or so.  That caused a bogus failure.  Is this patch OK?
> 
> What's behind the `cd ${objdir}' there that you're not doing anything
> with?  Is the patch incomplete, or does it need to be cleaned up?
> 
> If you address that, and add a comment explaining why what you're
> doing is necessary, then this patch looks good.

${srcdir} is a relative path - it starts with a '.'.  Objdir is known
(IIRC) to be an absolute path.  I'm reasonably sure that pwd will
always be objdir at this point, but not certain.  It might still work
if I remove that line, though.  I'll check.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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