From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:11:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Errors building git-1.5.2.2 on 64-bit Centos 5
Message-ID: <7vk5tzwsxn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k5u0q8q9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Not sure whether this is the problem: either cd does not understasnd
> the double slashes, or your shell used for scripts has modified cd to
> output some stuff when it is working (people sometimes imprudently
> make shell functions or aliases for this).
>
> Try writing something like
>
> type cd
>
> in a script file and see what output you get.

A one-word guess: CDPATH.

Bill, setting CDPATH in your interactive shell as a shell
variable is Ok, but exporting it as an environment does not make
much sense.

Really.