Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41934D94.6040407@familiehaase.de> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:31:32 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Prasad, Kanuparthi" CC: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: if construct doesn't work in makefile References: <7D5F213AF1EF264990B7C09ADD1B1CDDB8BF86@cheadle.ds.teradyne.com> In-Reply-To: <7D5F213AF1EF264990B7C09ADD1B1CDDB8BF86@cheadle.ds.teradyne.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Prasad, Kanuparthi wrote: > Hi, > > In my make file I am trying to check whether a directory exists or not > then set a path differently if doesn't exist. > I am using cygwin installed on windows 2000. > The if construct I have is as follows. > > if test [-dc:/tools]; then DRIVE = c:/tools; else DRIVE = c:/altTools; fi > > pls help me out. Try if test [-dc:/tools] ; then DRIVE=c:/tools; else DRIVE=c:/altTools; fi instead, and/or use cygwin syntax to access drives. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/