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From: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>
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Subject: The usage of `cd builtins && $(MAKE) ...`
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 07:09:53 -0600
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Hi,

I see things like `cd builtins && $(MAKE) ...` in the Makefiles in
bash source code. GNU Make has the option of -C for entering a
directory and make. Is the reason to cd then make for compatibility
with other make's that don't support -C? Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Peng