The following reply was made to PR toolchain/32983; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: toolchain/32983: pwd -P, found in build.sh, doesn't work with GNU/Linux
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:10:24 +0200

 On Sat, 04 Mar 2006, cagney@gnu.org wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       pwd -P, found in build.sh, doesn't work with GNU/Linux
 
 Does this patch work?
 
 Index: build.sh
 ===================================================================
 --- build.sh	3 Feb 2006 12:29:41 -0000	1.146
 +++ build.sh	4 Mar 2006 12:07:50 -0000
 @@ -68,6 +68,16 @@
  	${runcmd} echo "===> $@" | tee -a "${results}"
  }
  
 +# If system supports "/bin/pwd -P", then use it, else just use /bin/pwd.
 +pwd_P()
 +{
 +	if /bin/pwd -P >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
 +		/bin/pwd -P
 +	else
 +		/bin/pwd
 +	fi
 +}
 +
  initdefaults()
  {
  	cd "$(dirname $0)"
 @@ -87,7 +97,7 @@
  	# XXX Except that doesn't work on Solaris.
  	#
  	unset PWD
 -	TOP=$(/bin/pwd -P 2>/dev/null)
 +	TOP="$(pwd_P 2>/dev/null)"
  
  	# Set defaults.
  	#