Re: switching current working directory inside a makefile

[Stephan Beal]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:50 PM, mangetsu <address@hidden> wrote:
> subst K: D:\wibble\wobble
> cd /D K:
> Z:\tools\program.exe
>
> 'cd /D K:' executes without errors, but the next line,
> 'z:\tools\program.exe' is still called from the directory where the makefile
> is located.

Hi!

You need to read up on make's rules for multiple commands. In brief,
you need to change the commands to a single virtual line. On a unix
machine that would be done like this:

subst K: D:... ; \
 cd /D K: ; \
 Z:\\tools\\program.exe

Note the semicolons and backslashes at the end of each line. i have NO
idea if the windows shell supports the semicolon as a separator,
though.

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