Subject: re: make: absolute path for Makefile in errors.
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 01/04/2001 14:21:41 
   
   sort of...yeah.  did you give any thought to collapsing stuff like
   
      /usr/src/foo/bar/fork/knife/spoon/../../../Makefile
   
   to 
   
      /usr/Makefile


you can't really do that.  you don't know where you'll really end up
after the ..'s, due to symlinks.


.mrg.