Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:13:35 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Building gdb 5.0
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On 27 Jun 2001, 386sx wrote:

> > I can't imagine people could do that in their CDPATH, since if they
> > do, "cd foo" cannot chdir into a subdirectory `foo' of the current
> > directory. 
> 
> True only if there is a "foo'' subdirectory within a directory in CDPATH.
> If "." isn't included in CDPATH cd acts as if "." were the last entry.

Then why did "cd intl" fail in the GDB build procedure?

It sounds like I didn't really understand the reason for this problem,
so please tell some more about this.  Since this issue is not specific
to DJGPP, it will probably require some changes in the GDB configure
scripts, and I'd like to be able to explain this to the GDB
maintainers.

> Apparently it's better to just undefine CDPATH when compiling just to be on 
> the safe side:
> 
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-libtool/1998-May/000933.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/1999/msg00124.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-fileutils AT gnu DOT org/msg00807.html

Thanks, I'll look these up.