Subject: bash/gmake problem
From: [email-masked] (Jon Thackray)

5 Nov 1997 15:33:56 -0800
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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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