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From: rogerc@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Roger Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: using /bin/sh in make commands
Message-ID: <1761@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 89 18:04:11 GMT
References: <21173@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: rogerc@sauron.UUCP (Roger Collins)
Organization: E&M-Columbia, NCR Corp, W Columbia, SC
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In article <21173@adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
> 
> DIRS=lib src
> 
> foo:
> 	for i in $(DIRS); do \
> 		(cd $$i; $(MAKE) foo); \
> 	done
> 
> It seems if one of the sub-makes fails, the shell loop  continues.

Try this instead:

----------------------------------------
DIRS=lib src

foo:		$(DIRS)

$(DIRS)::
		cd $@; $(MAKE) foo
----------------------------------------

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