RFR: 8014003: New build does not handle symlinks in workspace path

[Erik Joelsson]

Unfortunately the /bin/pwd on fedora 9 doesn't follow this. I will try 
to figure out something else.

/Erik

On 2013-05-29 05:38, Mike Duigou wrote:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pwd.html
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> Yep, -L is part of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 standard which basically everything in use today supports. If only the same could be said about C99.
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> Mike
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> On May 28 2013, at 19:40 , Tim Bell wrote:
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>> Erik:
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>>> Due to a difference in the default output of the pwd command on mac vs linux and solaris, configure wouldn't allow the source root to be a symlink on mac. This patch fixes this by adding -L to the pwd command, forcing it to show the logical directory rather than the symlink free one.
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>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8014003/webrev.root.01/
>> Looks good to me.
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>> I checked pwd on Solaris, Linux, Cygwin on Windows, and Mac.  They all show -L as an option.  Unfortunately, I don't have the means at this time to check other platforms such as (non-Mac) BSD, AIX, HP-UX, Unicos, etc.
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>> Tim
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