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From:	piet AT stego DOT cs DOT ruu DOT nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Problem with make
Date:	03 Feb 1996 17:33:22 +0100
Organization:	Universiteit Utrecht, Dept. of Computer Science
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In-reply-to:	coomar@iitk.ernet.in's message of Thu, 1 Feb 1996 20:56:58 GMT
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>>>>> coomar AT iitk DOT ernet DOT in (KS) writes:

KS> Hello!
KS>         I am having some problem with dmake 3.8 .
KS>         Consider the following lines ina makefile for eg:

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

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

First, the () are unnecessary, even on Unix.
Second, I don't think the MS-DOS CLI accepts more than one command on a
line.
Probably it will accept the commands on separate lines, as the working
directory is global in MS-DOS. this also means that you must do a cd ..
afterwards.

libaries:	config.h
	-cd sources
	make
	cd ..

The - is because on my system the cd command returned an error status.

An alternate hack is to use the command:
	cd sources | make
	cd ..

this works because the make command doesn't read its standard input. of
course the command it generates shouldn't read stdin  either.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet AT cs DOT ruu DOT nl>
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

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