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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Microsoft NMAKE usage
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.135144.10987@mks.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 13:51:44 GMT
References: <1990Jun18.125544.22755@csc.ti.com> <1391@targon.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1391@targon.UUCP> andre@targon.UUCP (andre) writes:

>all: $(SUBDIRS)
>
>$(SUBDIRS):     do_always
>	$(CD) $@ ; $(MAKE) all

This may or may not work depending on whether Make executes the
recipes or invokes a shell to do it and which shell is being used.
The problem arises when a shell is invoked for the recipe because
command.com does not allow multiple commands on the same line
separated by `;' so something like ``cd dir;make'' won't work.
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