Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <40BC968B.1070309@yahoo.fr> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:45:31 +0200 From: bertrand marquis Reply-To: bertrand_marquis AT yahoo DOT fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: problem with make under cygwin References: <40BC3795 DOT 7030902 AT sysgo DOT com> <20040601143830 DOT GB31443 AT coe DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20040601143830.GB31443@coe.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on donald.sysgo.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.61 X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.16; AVE: 6.25.0.60; VDF: 6.25.0.81; host: mailgate.sysgo.de) X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i51EgBf9022820 thanks i found also that passing -n to echo solve the problem ???? : HAVE_DEVFS := $(shell grep 'CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y' ../../linux/.config &> /dev/null && echo -n "yes" || echo -n "no") but thank you, your solution is so much better Christopher Faylor a écrit: >On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:00:21AM +0200, bertrand marquis wrote: > > >>Hello >> >> i'm having a strange problem with the make command and shell. >> >>i try to run a makefile with this : >>HAVE_DEVFS := $(shell grep 'CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y' ../../linux/.config &> >>/dev/null && echo "yes" || echo "no") >> >>the shell command is working out of a makefile but in the makefile the >>HAVE_DEVFS variable only contain the output of the grep command. Does >>anyone know why it doesn't work ? >> >> > >make uses /bin/sh. /bin/sh doesn't understand the >& construct. It >is not portable. > >Use > >HAVE_DEVFS := $(shell grep 'CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y' ../../linux/.config >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "yes" || echo "no") > >instead. > >cgf > >-- >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/ > > > -- 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/