On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Markus" == Markus Lampert markuslampert@yahoo.com writes:
Markus> I remember that instead of just calling 'pwd' to Markus> determine the 'bindir' we changed it to 'pwd -P', which is portable to Markus> all UNIX variants (at the time)
pwd -P is a relatively modern invention.
IIRC pwd on Solaris does not recognise this option.
Cheers, Ian