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From:	alexlehm AT rbg DOT informatik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: [Q:] Recursive make ??
Date:	19 Apr 1996 11:43:05 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Eric NICOLAS (nicolas AT dsys DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr) wrote:
: Hi,

: I have a little problem with gnu-make (the one with djgpp v2).

: At my job, I used to work on unix workstations with not-gnu compiler
: (in fact sun compiler/linker). I have always used recursive makefile 
: which looked like that :

: -----
: .SILENT:

: default all verif clean	depend install:
: 	(cd FirstSubDir;		make $@)
: 	(cd SecondSubDir;		make $@)
: 	...
: ------

: But this doesn't work under gun-make. I looked in the info
: page and that syntax seems to be fine !

The doesn't work, because under unix, the command line (cd something;make)
is processed by the unix shell (usually sh or bash) and the command.com of
DOS doesn't support such a syntax. You can do recursive makes with the
-C option, e.g. make -C FirstSubDir $@.


bye, Alexander

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