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A strange bug happens to me since switching to emacs-18.59:

Machine: IBM RS-6000
Emacs: 18.59 compiled without changes, no site-init.el

While in my home-dir I do:

  emacs -q 

Then I hit "M-x cd RET c++ RET RET" and "M-x compile RET RET"
In the compilation-window appears:

cd /usr/lhome/rolf/c++/
make -k

Compilation unknown (core dumped) at Tue Jan 19 16:58:32

This error occurs in any other subdirectory that has a length of three
letters (e.g. ~/tex/ ~/c/c/ ~/pls) but not in subdirectories with less
or more than three letters (e.g. ~/matlab ~/c ~/tex/letters). And it
occurs to any shell command I try to invoke from a "three-letter"
directory. (e.g "M-! ls RET" brings a (Shell command completed with no
output) and dumps a core to this directory).
 
And it's even more complicated:

my home-directory /home/rolf is a link to /usr/lhome/rolf
where /home itself is mounted from a remote machine.
I can't reproduce the error either in directories of the form
/usr/lhome/abcd/abc nor in /home/abcd/abc

Can you help me to find out the problem?

Rolf