(thisdir): Nonsensical variable removed.

(install-arch-indep): Set shell var thisdir=`pwd` before cd and cd back to
$thisdir, rather than the directory `this_dir', which seems exceptionally
unlikely to just happen to be a symlink to the Emacs build directory, which
must have been the intent of the author.

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index b978eb7156387ee02ff0f8d9c4efc9d81bd16a95..25a1fee3229d7dbb5fca12946c0b4e53a03c578f 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -174,9 +174,6 @@ INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
 
 # ============================= Targets ==============================
 
-# This directory's absolute name.
-thisdir = `pwd`
-
 # Subdirectories to make recursively.  `lisp' is not included
 # because the compiled lisp files are part of the distribution
 # and you cannot remake them without installing Emacs first.
@@ -304,18 +301,19 @@ install-arch-indep: mkdir
           echo "Copying etc/DOC* ..." ; \
           (cd etc; tar -cf - DOC*)|(cd ${docdir}; umask 0; tar -xvf - ); \
        else true; fi
+       thisdir=`pwd`; \
        if [ `(cd ${srcdir}/info && /bin/pwd)` != `(cd ${infodir} && /bin/pwd)` ]; \
        then \
          (cd ${srcdir}/info ; \
           if [ ! -f ${infodir}/dir ] && [ -f dir ]; then \
-            (cd this_dir; ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/dir ${infodir}/dir); \
+            (cd $${thisdir}; ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/dir ${infodir}/dir); \
           fi ; \
           for f in cl* emacs* dired-x* forms* gnus* info* sc* vip* ; do \
-            (cd this_dir; ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/$$f ${infodir}/$$f); \
+            (cd $${thisdir}; ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/info/$$f ${infodir}/$$f); \
           done); \
        else true; fi
-       cd ${srcdir}/etc; for page in emacs etags ctags ; do \
-         (cd this_dir; ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/etc/$${page}.1 ${mandir}/$${page}${manext}); \
+       thisdir=`pwd`; cd ${srcdir}/etc; for page in emacs etags ctags ; do \
+         (cd $${thisdir}; ${INSTALL_DATA} ${srcdir}/etc/$${page}.1 ${mandir}/$${page}${manext}); \
        done
 
 ### Build all the directories we're going to install Emacs in. Since