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Subject: RE: if construct doesn't work in makefile
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:21:37 +0100
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cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 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.
> 
> Regards,
> sitaram

Does the following work better?
if test [ -d /cygdrive/C/tools ]; then DRIVE=c:/tools; else DRIVE=

By the way: this seems not to be a cygwin problem and it would be very helpful to provide at least the error message.

See http://cygwin.com/problems.html

  matthias


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