From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4468 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2003 13:10:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4461 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2003 13:10:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2003 13:10:28 -0000 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F1614722; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:10:27 +0200 (MEST) To: Ben Elliston Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: makeinfo with gdb.texinfo X-Yow: MERYL STREEP is my obstetrician! From: Andreas Schwab Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3E8ACD85.7060900@wasabisystems.com> (Ben Elliston's message of "Wed, 02 Apr 2003 21:46:13 +1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) References: <20030331172211.GB10233@white> <20030331174222.GA30182@nevyn.them.org> <20030331175248.GC10233@white> <16008.34076.442297.792987@casey.transmeta.com> <8011-Wed02Apr2003061800+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3E8ACD85.7060900@wasabisystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 Ben Elliston writes: |> Eli Zaretskii wrote: |> |> >Actually, it's a deliberately programmed feature. It's even described |> >in the manual: relative file names are interpreted as being relative |> >to one of the directories mentioned in the INFOPATH environment |> >variable (or in the default Info search path if INFOPATH is |> >undefined). |> > |> >It mimics the behavior of a Unix shell when searching for executable |> >programs: the current directory is never searched, unless you have "." |> >in your PATH. |> > |> One could argue that there is a fundamental difference between a shell and |> other programs: the shell executes programs; most others treat their |> arguments as input files. But most other programs don't use a search path for their input files. Compare with the C preprocessor, which distinguishes between <...> and "...". Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."