Using ".." in Scripts & Makefiles

[Jan-Piet Mens @ Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden]

In article <1991Mar26.201509.5048 at intelhf.hf.intel.com> marko at hutch (Mark O'Shea) writes:
>I am resposible for upgrading a set of test suites which have some scripts
>and makefiles that do things like:
>   HOME=..
>or
>   cd ../../
>
>etc.
>
>Now I know that they will work, but I am instinctively uncomfortable with
>them.  I personally believe that spelling out the path names is a better
>practice.
>

I don't agree. I also (if I must do it) use the '..' business. 
If you have to move the base directory of your package to somewhere 
else in the file-system, you will have to modify all the absolute 
pathnames !!!.

Why not use -I.. for includes for example, or define absolute pathnames
in Makefiles, etc.

Regards,
	JP

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