Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
>> I'm not sure what typical means, but there have been multiple reports of
>> trouble. bash doesn't set $PWD to `/bin/pwd -P` and it seems other
>> shells don't either. Arguably this is POSIX's fault for specifying -L
>> as the default /bin/pwd behavior.
>
> The far more typical case AFAICT is ${PREFIX} or ${WRKOBJDIR} pointing
> to a symlink or having one in the path, especially for things under
> /tmp.
Sure, that sounds reasonably frequent too. My point is that right now
we get mysterious failures in cases that I consider reasonably common.
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