Re: how to work around the "long command line" in djgpp make

[Martin Sebor]

Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Martin Sebor <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ms> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>   >> The next version of GNU make has abspath and realpath functions, too.
>
>   ms> The problem with this functionality is that it's not reliable.
>   ms> Consider this script:
>
>   ms> (   cd /tmp && mkdir foo \
>   ms>   && cd foo && mkdir bar \
>   ms>   && cd bar && mv /tmp/foo /tmp/foobar \
>   ms>   && pwd && cd `pwd`)
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
>
> The functions I'm talking about are _make_ functions, so none of the
> strangeness that you might encounter with the shell is relevant to
> those... all make functions are resolved in the context of the make
> program, before any shell is invoked.  Am I missing something?

Maybe I didn't use the best example (replacing the mv command
with a chmod a-x might have better illustrated the point). What
I was trying to show was that it may not always be possible to
form an absolute pathname from a relative one because the path
may not exist or may not be accessible.

Martin