Re: Re: problems with recursive make target

[johnwohlbier]

On Jun 29, 2009 1:44pm, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello John,
> * address@hidden wrote on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:36:09PM CEST:
> > in top/lib/Makefile.am
> > SUBDIRS = pika_comm pika_utilities
> > # provide a separate recursive target for making tests
> > tests : all
> > echo `pwd`;
> > for dir in $(SUBDIRS); do \
> > cd $$dir && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $@ || exit 1; \
> > done
> > echo `pwd`;
> > .PHONY : tests

> You don't ever 'cd' back out of the first subdirectory, so you can't
> find the second:

> > make[2]: Leaving directory  
> `/users/wohlbier/MPMC/pika/build/lib/pika_comm'
> > /bin/sh: line 1: cd: pika_utilities: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [tests] Error 1
> Cheers,

> Ralf


Thanks Ralf. I feel pretty dumb. You know I suspected that was the problem,  
and was trying to cd ../. But now I realize I was putting the cd ../ in the  
wrong place. After my wrongly placed cd ../ didn't work (which I thought  
was rightly placed) I thought maybe that the example code at  
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/agaal/catalog_of_reusable_solutions  
was correct and make would handle the cd'ing for me. Maybe I should file a  
documentation bug report with John Calcote!

jgw