Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:7025 From: j DOT j DOT vanderheijden AT driene DOT student DOT utwente DOT nl (J.J. van der Heijden) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: recursive make : c:\temp\dj100000.bat destroyed Date: 9 Aug 1996 15:11:54 GMT Organization: Universiteit Twente Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ufkfq$aj0@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> Reply-To: j DOT j DOT vanderheijden AT driene DOT student DOT utwente DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Host: pc043.pczaalciv.utwente.nl To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp I'm having this problem with a recursive make (ie: make calls make in a subdirectory) The relevant part of the Makefile is: --- MAKE = make library: cd rts $(MAKE) RTSFLAGS="$(RTSFLAGS)" --- When make[2] is done in the rts subdirectory, make[1] takes over, to find that C:\TEMP\DJ100000.BAT is gone, then exits. Apparently, make[1] creates this batfile and make[2] overwrites it. Does it not create a unique file or what is going on here? /janjaap