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From:	alexlehm AT rbg DOT informatik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Problem with make
Date:	2 Feb 1996 13:32:33 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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coomar AT iitk DOT ernet DOT in wrote:
: Hello!
:         I am having some problem with dmake 3.8 .
:         Consider the following lines ina makefile for eg:

:         libraries: config.h
:                 (cd sources; make)

: when I type  'make libraries', It takes the line (cd sources; make) as single
: line and hence gives 'BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME' message. I am running it on
: DOS 6.22. Same problem happens with gnu make 3.7.1 also. Any solutions?

I think that commands in ()s are not supported by DOS command at all.
On unix, when a sequence of commands in put into parentheses, a subshell is
created which then executes that commands (this is important for e.g. $CWD
and other environment variables).
Since DOS doesn't have links, I think it would be ok to use
cd source;make;cd .. (if command interprets ;, I'm not sure) If that doesn't
probably you can put the commands in separate lines, which doesn't work
for unix, since it calls a subshell for each line it executes.
Or you could try to get a bash implementation for DOS and use that instead
of command, if necessary with bash -c (cd sources; make).

bye, Alexander

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