src/backend/Makefile CDPATH Patch

The attached patch solves an annoying build failure when /bin/sh is a
symlink to /bin/bash and CDPATH is set. The problem manifests itself as
the following error:

$ cd src/backend
$ make ../../src/include/parser/parse.h
prereqdir=`cd parser/ && pwd` && \
cd ../../src/include/parser/ && rm -f parse.h && \
ln -s $prereqdir/parse.h .
ln: ./parser: File exists
make: *** [../../src/include/parser/parse.h] Error 1
make: *** Deleting file `../../src/include/parser/parse.h'

The above is due to the following:

$ export CDPATH=.:/home/jt:/home/jt/src:/home/jt/lib
$ echo `cd parser/ && pwd`
/home/jt/src/pgsql/src/backend/parser /home/jt/src/pgsql/src/backend/parser

Hence, prereqdir is actually getting set to two directory names instead
of one which causes ln to fail.

If CDPATH is not set (or set differently) or /bin/sh is not /bin/bash,
then we get the expected behavior:

$ unset CDPATH
$ echo `cd parser/ && pwd`
/home/jt/src/pgsql/src/backend/parser

The the solution used in the patch is as follows:

$ export CDPATH=.:/home/jt:/home/jt/src:/home/jt/lib
$ echo `cd parser/ >/dev/null && pwd`
/home/jt/src/pgsql/src/backend/parser

Note that there are many solutions -- I just chose the one that perturbed
the Makefile the least.

Jason

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Jason Tishler
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