On 12/12/2012 01:27 PM, Shao Miller wrote:> Perhaps it could be useful to have a "CHDIR" config-file
directive? I'm
> thinking it'd override anything passed by config.c32. I'm also
thinking
> it'd be a config-file-global, rather than a LABEL-specific, option.
Then a
> config-file could set its own working directory without using config.c32 as
> an intermediate step. Does this seem like a reasonable feature to have? -
> Shao
>
> P. S. Maybe this already exists and I haven't read about it. If so,
then
> oops.
>
The problem with CHDIR is that it makes it very hard to deal with the
fact that it suddenly matters "when" a certain patch is interpreted.
The reason this is currently mixed with the CONFIG directive is that
that is a natural reset point anyway.
-hpa
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