On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:02:29PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> >
> > cd foo && $(MAKE) && cd ..
> >
> so if submake fails, returning an exit code non-zero you don't cd .. ?
Yup. Better not fail, then.
> assuming you've got some sort of subshell logic (biggie?) you mean
Biggie, I'd expect, but can't test.
> cd foo && ($(MAKE); cd ..)
> I've got some C somewhere I wrote to implement a very dumb shell. Its 3
> builtin functions where chdir, && and ||
Someone's eventually going to rebuild the whole build system, so I
wouldn't recommend working too hard to make this system elegant. If it
limps along ok for now, that's probably ok.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
