From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov), binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH to top level: don't use dirname in configure
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 02:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <or4s5ibjb4.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
References: <0007212229.AA04846@ivan.Harhan.ORG> <200007220919.FAA12005@indy.delorie.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00411.html

On Jul 22, 2000, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com> wrote:

> In contrast, `dirname' (when it exists) will always DTRT, because it
> is tailored to the host system.

Unfortunately, `dirname' is too far from being portable.  We must not
depend on its existence.

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