• chris elliott (10/10) Jun 13 2003 for digital mars make 5.02:
• mjs NOSPAM.hannover.sgh-net.de (Mark Junker) (10/17) Jun 14 2003 Try the following:

"chris elliott" <biol75 york.ac.uk> writes:

for digital mars make 5.02:

this makefile

all:
        cd c:\wxwindows\src
        dir *.*
        make -f makefile.sc

I don't think the cd actually has any effect - it still does a dir of the
starting directory and then restarts the makefile, rather than the one in
the specified directory

chris

mjs NOSPAM.hannover.sgh-net.de (Mark Junker) writes:

[..]
 all:
         cd c:\wxwindows\src
         dir *.*
         make -f makefile.sc

 I don't think the cd actually has any effect - it still does a dir of the
 starting directory and then restarts the makefile, rather than the one in
 the specified directory

Try the following:
all:
        echo cd c:\wxwindows\src > tmp.bat
        echo dir *.*             >> tmp.bat
        echo make -f makefile.sc >> tmp.bat
        echo cd c:\olddir        >> tmp.bat
        tmp.bat

Regards,
Mark Junker