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Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 17, 2007, 18:37 UTC
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Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 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?
> I don't have POSIX.1 handy, but on Solaris 10, you need to say:
>
> 	tar cf - -C blt .
>
> (That is, Solaris' tar has the 'C' option, which is quite a good
> indication, that it's included in POSIX :-)
Oh, I cannot resist ;-)

Solaris has unlink(2) capable of removing a directory, but I do not think it is included in POSIX.

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Message 10 of 12 in “Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable”
  1. Wincent ColaiutaJul 11, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2007
  3. David KastrupJul 12, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2007
  5. Wincent ColaiutaJul 12, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 12, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2007
  9. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 17, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2007
  11. Wincent ColaiutaJul 17, 2007
  12. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 17, 2007

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