Re: getcwd infinite recursion

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:41:06PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm in the process of making my man-db package use Gnulib. Upon
> > importing the xgetcwd module and using it
> 
> Have you done a "make distclean" and reconfigured after doing this?

Yes.

> > Isn't this bound to break with HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD && !LIBC? The
> > function definition preprocesses to char *getcwd.
> 
> The expected behaviour is that __getwcd expands to getcwd which in turns
> expands to rpl_getcwd. If getcwd does not expand to rpl_getcwd, you need
> to find out why. Look at the value of REPLACE_GETCWD in your config.status
> and at the differences between lib/unistd.in.h (or lib/unistd_.h) and
> lib/unistd.h.

REPLACE_GETCWD is 1 and unistd.h is up to date. However, getcwd.c
includes <unistd.h>. Should this not be "unistd.h", in order to use the
version from Gnulib in the current directory?

(I'm writing this mail in a brief interval between coming home and going
out again, but I can try this out later if nobody beats me to it.)

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden