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From: Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen@comcast.net>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:47:00 -0700
To: Jason Pearce <jason.pearce@ieee.org>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: bug in cygwin build of Make
In-Reply-To: <400506B3.6000902@ieee.org>
References: <400506B3.6000902@ieee.org>

JP> dir1/Makefile:
JP> --------------
JP> VARIABLE = $(shell echo $$PWD)
JP> 
JP> sources :
JP>     @echo VARIABLE set to ${VARIABLE}

The GNU make variable CURDIR is set by make to the current working
directory of the executing make.  This is probably the variable you
want.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Robert


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