From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:26:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable
Message-ID: <7vejje3a4k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9693D8E9-6F11-4AA1-AFCA-7E8456FA6420@wincent.com>

Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:

>  install: all
>         $(INSTALL) -d -m755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(template_dir_SQ)'
> -       (cd blt && $(TAR) cf - .) | \
> +       cd blt && $(TAR) cf - . | \
>         (cd '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(template_dir_SQ)' && $(TAR) xf -)
> +       cd -

Actually I suspect replacing the "cd blt" in the original with
"cd ./blt", without changing anything else, would squelch the
CDPATH problem.

We could write it as "$(TAR) Ccf blt - ." if we can rely on the
'C' option, but I suspect it is a GNU extension.  Does anybody
have POSIX.1 handy?