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...cur easily > enough), it could be helpful. Incidentally, IMHO the way it is coded in > INSTALL.in (I didn't know about INSTALL.in, sorry) is a bit unusual; cd > does not seem to be required by the POSIX standard to have non-zero exit > status when it fails (and in fact, on older SunOSes, 'cd > non/existant/directory' returns 0). But that is But it _is_ so required: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cd.html How old are `older SunOSes'? Solaris 8 (which is 4 years old) is POSIX-compilant here, and I would be surprised if any from the last d...

...which I think can occur easily enough), it could be helpful. Incidentally, IMHO the way it is coded in INSTALL.in (I didn't know about INSTALL.in, sorry) is a bit unusual; cd does not seem to be required by the POSIX standard to have non-zero exit status when it fails (and in fact, on older SunOSes, 'cd non/existant/directory' returns 0). But that is probably more a matter of style, more than anything else. Regards, Philip -- Philip Lijnzaad Genomics Laboratory Dept. of Biomedical Genetics University Medical Ce...

...always a good idea). But the issue will affect any POSIX-compliant shell. > But it _is_ so required: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cd.html Sorry, I missed that. And I agree that it's the most logical thing to do when cd fails. > How old are `older SunOSes'? Solaris 8 (which is 4 years old) is > POSIX-compilant here, and I would be surprised if any from the last decade > was not (at least with suitable paths set). SunOS 5.7 (which admittedly is ancient; I can't find the year, google.com is currently unreachable for me) doesn't do...