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Re: functions/realpath test failure on AIX


From: Boris Kolpackov
Subject: Re: functions/realpath test failure on AIX
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:46:30 +0000 (UTC)
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Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

> On AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, and 5.2, $(realpath .///) appends "/":
>   $ cat /tmp/a
> .PHONY: all
> all:
>         @echo $(CURDIR)
>         @echo $(realpath .///)
>   $ ./make -f /tmp/a
>   /opt/build/make-3.81beta3/tests
>   /opt/build/make-3.81beta3/tests/

Does GNU make use libc's realpath or its own on AIX? (Check the test for
realpath in config.log.) I am pretty sure it's AIX's realpath since I
just tested GNU make's own fallback implementation and it work fine.
So this is really a bug in AIX, not GNU make.


-boris





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