Re: bug in the documentation, or ...?

[nusret]

[Paul, the first email sent to your private email, but
it was an accident. I apologize for that]

Alright, but a last question:
I really don't have any experience with Unix(-like)
systems. Someone told in some mailing list that if we
change ';' to '&&' the change will cause problems in
some unix systems. is this true? Why do you say && is
safer? 
Thank you and regards,
Nusret

--- "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:

> %% nusret <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   n> I quote from the make manual (3.80)
> 
>   n> foo : bar/lose
>   n>         cd bar; gobble lose > ../foo
>   n> ...
>   n> '''''''''
> 
>   n> This doesn't work on Windows XP cmd.exe. Does
> make
>   n> preprocess commands to replace ; with && which
> works?
>   n> Or should the manual point to this?
>   n> (I learned it the hard way :)
> 
> In general the examples in the GNU make manual
> assume that SHELL is a
> POSIX-compatible shell, in a POSIX environment.  A
> disclaimer to that
> effect is probably something that should be made in
> the manual, but I
> don't really want to write two versions of all the
> examples, one for
> POSIX and one for Windows... Windows users are
> expected to understand
> the idiosyncracies of their own environment using
> CMD.EXE (just as
> anyone would need to understand the ramifications of
> changing SHELL to
> Perl or some other interpreter).
> 
> 
> _However_!  That example has already been changed in
> the manual, because
> it's safer to use "&&" anyway.  The new version of
> that example is:
> 
>   foo : bar/lose
>           cd $(@D) && gobble $(@F) > ../$@
> 
> -- 
>
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> 


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