Re: Executing a shell script in a Makefile

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  ny> I also don't see any backgrounded processes.  The only other thing
  ny> I can think of is what Paul had said about NFS.

  g> all :
  g>        $(SHELL) ./copyfile.sh
  g>        cd $(OBJ_DIR) && mv foo.o newfoo

Try changing your rule like this:

 all :
        $(SHELL) ./copyfile.sh; \
          [ -f $(OBJ_DIR)/foo.o ] || echo $(OBJ_DIR)/foo.o not there
        cd $(OBJ_DIR) && mv foo.o newfoo

and see what happens.

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