pwd vs $PWD, bash, cygwin vs Linux

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:08:43AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
>Essentially under Cygwin the PWD variable seems to be "frozen" at its
>value upon first launching Make from the commandline, while under Linux
>it is being updated for each child process spawned by `make -C XXX`
>
>I know that Cygwin != Linux, however is it a reasonable expectation
>that under the same shells, the same behaviour should apply?

In this case, the operative observation is bash != ash.  PWD is a bash
construct.  You would be much better off just using the gnu make
"CURDIR" variable.  Changing PWD to CURDIR in your examples makes things
work as you'd expect.

cgf

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