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Re: Correct expansion of auxdir; have missing use it


From: Tim Van Holder
Subject: Re: Correct expansion of auxdir; have missing use it
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:33:10 +0200

> I think a subshell is implicit in backquotes.

Didn't know that.  Oddly enough, if I try something
like 'pwd; echo `cd foo; pwd`; pwd' in bash, that works
as expected - but for configure, I needed to add the subshell...

> I'm assuming you're doing this on Windows?

In a DOS box under Windows Millennium, yes.

> What shell are you using?

The latest bash 2.04 for DJGPP.

Apparently, this seems to be a very strange quirk in our bash
port.  Please disregard the patch to EXPAND_AUX_DIR for
now; I'll investigate further.




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