Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:01:10PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, David Laight wrote:
> >     src/usr.bin/make: parse.c
> >
> > When processing .include "../../foo.mk" lexically process the leading ../
> > against the directory name of the makefile being processed.
> 
> I see the attraction of this lexical processing, but it won't always
> work in the presence of symlinks to directories.

Indeed, but in this case I think lexical processing is almost certainly
what the user wants.  Since it only applies the the very specific case
of looking for an included makefile relative to directory containing
the makefile being processed.

        David

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