Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [PATCH] bin/mklib: Clear CDPATH to avoid damaging expand_archive output

[Daniel S. <da...@fo...>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:17:31AM -0700, Brian Paul wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn...@gm...> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Keith Packard <ke...@ke...> wrote:
> >> The bash 'cd' command tends to emit random stuff to stdout when the
> >> CDPATH variable is set, so clear it to keep extra filenames from being
> >> emitted from the expand_archive function, which would otherwise cause
> >> mklib to fail.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <ke...@ke...>
> >
> > Congratulations on wading in to mklib, it's not a friendly place. :)
> 
> Heh, I guess you've never had to debug libtool then.  mklib is a walk
> in the park by comparison.

In fairness though, I haven't had to debug libtool for several years
now, because it always seems to work, whereas mklib seems to encounter
new and exciting failures all the time.  Oh well. :)

Cheers,
Daniel