1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh
Eric Blake
ebb9@byu.net
Wed Aug 23 18:53:00 GMT 2006
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According to Dave Korn on 8/23/2006 8:44 AM:
>
> 19. If `CDPATH' is set, the `cd' builtin will not implicitly append
> the current directory to it. This means that `cd' will fail if no
> valid directory name can be constructed from any of the entries in
> `$CDPATH', even if the a directory with the same name as the name
> given as an argument to `cd' exists in the current directory.
Which by my reading of POSIX is a bug in bash; POSIX requires cd to
implicitly consider . after exhausting CDPATH. But to date, my pleas
upstream to get this fixed have fallen on deaf ears. So in the meantime,
I always make sure that my CDPATH ends in a colon.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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