bash/gmake problem
Jon Thackray
jont@harlequin.co.uk
Wed Nov 5 09:40:00 GMT 1997
John Muller writes:
> In my makefile I have a statement which looks like:
>
> cd libsrc/somelib/src; $(MAKE) -f somelib.mk $(ACTION)
>
> In a dos window or mks korn shell, gmake executes these statements correctly.
> However, things fail when gmake is started in a bash shell. The statement
> cd libsrc/somelib/src only goes one level deep (ie we are in the libsrc
> directory and not libsrc/somlib/src).
>
> Anybody have any ideas of what is going on?
No, but I have found the following idiom to work quite well:-
cd libsrc && cd somelib && cd src && $(MAKE) -f somelib.mk $(ACTION)
You might even find that
cd libsrc/somelib/src && $(MAKE) -f somelib.mk $(ACTION)
works.
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