Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:51:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
To: Robin Crampton <robinc AT bacg DOT com>
cc: "djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Make strangeness
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Robin Crampton wrote:

> >Please post the Makefile, or at least the part thereof which includes   
> the
> >above command.
> 
> Okay (fragment):
> 
> $(CONFIG_HEADER): stamp-h
> stamp-h: $(CONFIG_HEADER_IN) $(top_builddir)/config.status
>     cd $(top_builddir) \
>       && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=$(CONFIG_HEADER) \
>          $(SHELL) ./config.status
>     @echo timestamp > stamp-h
> $(srcdir)/$(CONFIG_HEADER_IN): stamp-h.in
> $(srcdir)/stamp-h.in: $(top_srcdir)/configure.in $(ACLOCAL) acconfig.h
>     cd $(top_srcdir) && autoheader
>     echo timestamp > $(srcdir)/stamp-h.in
> 
> After further investigation, the bug appears to be with make/bash,
> 
> all: 
>  echo hello && echo there
> 
> fails in the same way.  Output is
> 
> $ make
> echo hello && echo there
> make.exe: *** [all] Error -1
> 
> So make/bash doesn't like &&.  Hmmm.  Well I _could_ live with that...

But why live WITHOUT it when you can live WITH it!  Use 4DOS, it has
support for && and || just like bash.  Works in Makefiles too!




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