RE: issue with TCSH and gmake

[Asperheim, Eric]

Paul,

It's just the syntax of the while command in c or tc shell:

while (expression)
        command(s)
end

and your suggestion, unfortunately, doesn't work. Plus, I really don't want
to switch to sh shell since our group uses c/tc shell, i.e. I'd rather stick
with the simple script.

So, does anyone have any idea how to do what I want in c/tc shell?

Thanks,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:50 PM
To: Asperheim, Eric
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: issue with TCSH and gmake


%% "Asperheim, Eric" <address@hidden> writes:

  ae> Does anyone know of a way to do this inside gmake - eliminating
  ae> need for wait_for.tcsh script?

I know next to nothing about tcsh, but why doesn't something like this:

  foo:
        command to create $@
        while (! -e $@); sleep 5; end

work?  If you were using SHELL = sh instead of tcsh, this would be
trivial.

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