Re: The usage of `cd builtins && $(MAKE) ...`

From	Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: The usage of `cd builtins && $(MAKE) ...`
Date	2018-12-30 14:37 +0100
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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.

I'm afraid that you are in wrong mailing list. I'm putting this list on
bcc. You can consider asking at one of autotools lists

https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html

I would choose automake one. But yes, I believe that it's because not
every make clone has -C.

Cheers
-- 
	Vlad

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Re: The usage of `cd builtins && $(MAKE) ...` Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com> - 2018-12-30 14:37 +0100

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