From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Building gdb 5.0
Date: 28 Jun 2001 11:51:45 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> 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?

Probably because there was some directory named /some/where/else/intl,
with "/some/where/else" being CDPATH. 

So, kids, if you want to try out CDPATH at home: always make sure you
have ".:" (or ".;" in the DOS case) at the very beginning of it.
Otherwise, you'll get burnt.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.