in reply to Getting rid of Perl in Makefiles

Hi ,

Andys' solution works for either *NIX or Cygwin (on Wintel), but doesn't work on DOS CLI and hence wouldn't be platform neutral as required :-((

... been there and done that in ClearCase on Wintel. Our platform neutral solution was not dissimilar to yours - AFAIR, it was along the lines of ... 

ITEM :sh= perl -MCwd -e "$$cwd = cwd();$$cwd =~ /.*[\\\/](.*)/;$$1"

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Sorry if that's not quite right, but it was a while ago ..

HTH ,

At last, a user level that best describes my experience :-))

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