bug in cygwin build of Make

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:06:59AM +0000, Jason Pearce wrote:
>I have discovered a problem in cygwin's Make.
>
>I am calling a sub-make that goes to another directory. That bit works 
>fine, but the Makefiles have a variable set from a shell command. That 
>shell seems to be spawned from the wrong directory. I have created a 
>small example illustrating the problem
>
>dir2/Makefile:
>---------------
>VARIABLE = $(shell echo $$PWD)
>
>target :
>   ${MAKE} -C ../dir1 sources
>   @echo VARIABLE set to ${VARIABLE}

You can't rely on PWD being set correctly.  Use something like
$(shell pwd) instead.

cgf

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