Re: [PATCH] configure: replace $(realpath emacs) with $(cd emacs && pwd -P)

Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: replace $(realpath emacs) with $(cd emacs && pwd -P)

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:15:27 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> For portability; the realpath command (e.g. from GNU coreutils)
> is not so common outside Linux systems.
>
> The "$(cd emacs && pwd -P)" replaces that realpath(1) execution
> suitably in this context (using just bash(1) builtins).

Applied to master. It seems not to make things worse, although my
testing of the OOT build was hampered by the failure of the new python
bindings to build OOT [1].


[1]: id:87h7qnubsw.fsf@tethera.net
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