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Re: PATCH to top level: don't use dirname in configure
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: PATCH to top level: don't use dirname in configure
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 22 Jul 2000 06:33:51 -0300
- Cc: msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG (Michael Sokolov), binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <0007212229.AA04846@ivan.Harhan.ORG><200007220919.FAA12005@indy.delorie.com>
On Jul 22, 2000, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com> wrote:
> In contrast, `dirname' (when it exists) will always DTRT, because it
> is tailored to the host system.
Unfortunately, `dirname' is too far from being portable. We must not
depend on its existence.
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