From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Support building in a different directory on Solaris |
Date: | 2001-08-10 22:24:42 |
Message-ID: | 10406.997482282@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> if [ `cd "$srcdir" ; /bin/pwd` = `/bin/pwd` ] ; then : ; else
> That doesn't work in some setups; that's why we have what we have now.
> The problem is that this test would actually evaluate to "not equal" and
> the prep_buildtree would run on top of the source tree. Ugh.
Hmm. Well, there's always the direct-experiment approach to finding out
whether two directories are the same. How about some variant of
touch ./funkyFileName
if [ -f "$srcdir/funkyFileName" ]
-- $srcdir is .
else
-- $srcdir is not .
fi
rm ./funkyFileName
regards, tom lane
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