Re: what is this shell call trying to solve?

[Robert Collins]

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From: "Raja R Harinath" <address@hidden>

> > I think that is probably a bug.  I can't think of why we'd be doing
> > that intentionally.  Can you?  Akim, do you know?
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> IIRC, it was added by Alexandre Oliva.  The only reason I can think
> of is a really really broken VPATH implementation: one that fails to
> attach to the source filename the VPATH component it found the source
in.

I.e. The SunOS Make, IIRC.

Rob