On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:58:17AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > > AC> Millions of apps rely on // working.
> > >
> > > Are you sure ? Why ? Till there no warning we can not check it.
> >
> > Because everyone knows // is fine so everyone is really sloppy about
> > combining paths together.
>
> The most "telling" example is that someone has a $TOPDIR variable.
> If it is set to /usr/local and you want to put something in the etc
> directory you use: $(TOPDIR)/etc . Now how do you specify a TOPDIR
> of "/"? You'll end up with "//etc".
no... if you want to specify root as TOPDIR, use TOPDIR=
that's what is used in Hurd to configure programs (./configure --prefix=)
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