Re: Speed up progname, progpath setting

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:12:45AM CEST:
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> On systems where $PWD happens to not work, we shouldn't care about
>>> performance, they are so rare.
>> We should define what it means for PWD to work.
> 
> My intention was to use it only in places where it doesn't matter
> whether logical or physical paths are used.  For example progpath,
> where all that's needed is that we can grep/sed the libtool script.

Yes, thus avoiding the possible forks for cd and pwd. I think using $PWD
for this is fine.

Peter
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