--- Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One idiom which might work is > > cd foo && $(MAKE) > > Since lines in makefiles are handed off to the native > shell, this will > be dependent upon the user's native shell. I don't know > any details, > but I gather the various shells in Win95, Win98, WinNT, > and WinXP are > not necessarily identical. I *think* the above idiom > works in NT, but > not Win98. I'm hopeful it will work in XP. > (Of course, the user may well have installed a different > command > shell, in which case who knows what will happen.)
It should work, IIRC, since XP's shell is the latest version of cmd.exe, the NT shell. > If the user is using dmake, but is stuck with Win95(?)'s > command.com, > then he or she can still use perl5's win32/genmk95.pl. > Here are the > comments from it: > > # genmk95.pl - uses miniperl to generate a makefile that > command.com will > # understand given one that cmd.exe will > understand > > # Author: Benjamin K. Stuhl > # Date: 10-16-1999 > > # how it works: > # dmake supports an alternative form for its recipes, > called "group > # recipes", in which all elements of a recipe are run > with only one shell. > # This program converts the standard dmake makefile.mk > to one using group > # recipes. This is done so that lines using && or || > (which command.com > # doesn't understand) may be split into two lines that > will still be run > # with one shell. > > We would need permission from the author to include the > script itself in > parrot. Consider permission granted, but I probably won't get around to rigging it up to work with parrot myself. (I finally got a newer system with Win2k, so I don't need to arm-wrestle command.com anymore, woohoo!) Of course, this idiom won't AFAIK work on VMS, but that shouldn't surprise anyone. -- BKS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
