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Re: Warning - non-POSIX variable name
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Warning - non-POSIX variable name |
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Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:39:00 -0500 |
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On 08/09/2017 12:02 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Passing a relative path to CC seems error prone since it only applies to the
>> current working directory and will fail as soon as any Makefile recurses.
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> Maybe you have a better answer to this related question: is there a portable
> alternative to GNU readlink’s -f option?
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> On a Linux box, I’d get around the problem you raise with:
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> $ ./configure CC=$(readlink -f
> ../../llvm-arm-toolchain-ship/3.8/bin/clang)
Why not just:
./configure CC="$PWD/../../llvm-arm-toolchain-ship/3.8/bin/clang"
which turns your relative name into an absolute one?
Do you HAVE to have the canonical name?
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
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