Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: if construct doesn't work in makefile Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:02:25 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <41934D94.6040407@familiehaase.de> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Nov 2004 13:02:26.0046 (UTC) FILETIME=[B11761E0:01C4C7EE] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase > Sent: 11 November 2004 11:32 > Prasad, Kanuparthi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In my make file I am trying to check whether a directory > exists or not > > then set a path differently if doesn't exist. > > I am using cygwin installed on windows 2000. > > The if construct I have is as follows. > > > > if test [-dc:/tools]; then DRIVE = c:/tools; else DRIVE = > c:/altTools; fi > > > > pls help me out. > > Try > if test [-dc:/tools] ; then DRIVE=c:/tools; else DRIVE=c:/altTools; fi > instead, and/or use cygwin syntax to access drives. There's nothing wrong with the command syntax in general. The problem is that in bash, you can't put a space between the VARIABLE and the = sign, or bash thinks it's an executable to search the $PATH for instead of a variable to assign to. dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> unset FRED dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> if test [-dc:/baar]; then FRED=yes; else FRED=no; fi dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> echo ${FRED} yes dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> unset FRED dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> if test [-dc:/baar]; then FRED = yes; else FRED = no; fi bash: FRED: command not found dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> if test [-dc:/baar]; then FRED =yes; else FRED =no; fi bash: FRED: command not found dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> if test [-dc:/baar]; then FRED=yes; else FRED =no; fi dk@mace /tmp/bgcc> cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/