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

From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: toolchain-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: toolchain/32983: pwd -P, found in build.sh, doesn't work with
 GNU/Linux
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:36:46 -0500

 Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR toolchain/32983; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
 > To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: toolchain/32983: pwd -P, found in build.sh, doesn't work with
 >  GNU/Linux
 > Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 07:40:47 -0800 (PST)
 > 
 >  Is this causing a problem with build.sh?
 >  
 >  The revision 1.124 says:
 >  
 >  "Ignore errors when running pwd -P.  (GNU coreutils incorrectly 
 >  complains)"
 >  
 >  The change in 1.123 was:
 >  
 >  -       if [ "${uname_s}" = "SunOS" ]; then
 >  -               TOP=$(pwd -P)
 >  -       else
 >  -               TOP=$(pwd)
 >  -       fi
 >  +       TOP=$(/bin/pwd -P)
 >  
 
 -P was added between version 2, and version 3:
 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/pwd.html
 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pwd.html
 the patch I saw posted should work (but I can't revert my build.sh to 
 apply it since cvs is down).
 
 >  On NetBSD, the -P is the default.
 >  
 >  (Also I don't see the -P switch documented in man pages for pwd I found 
 >  for Solaris on the web.)
 >  
 >  
 >  
 >  
 >   Jeremy C. Reed
 >  
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