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

[Dan N. <dbn...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Brian Paul <bri...@gm...> 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.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that it's simplicity is not a virtue. On
the other hand, it doesn't get a ton of love, so it tends to be pretty
incoherent. libtool debugging is an absolute nightmare, but thankfully
it's been a long time since most people had to deal with that.

--
Dan