Re: Have make run shell comand but not in a target

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Jens Schweikhardt <address@hidden> writes:

  js> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Yanghui Bian wrote:
  js> # Hello,
  js> # In my make file, I need to include the sub makefile which 
  js> # is in CVS system. I write it as fllows:
  js> # $(shell cvs co my_test) 
  js> # include ./my_test/Makefile
  js> # 
  js> # It works fine. But I want make to echo the command "cvs co my_test"
  js> # result as I run in shell. 

  js> I'm not sure I understand what you want, exactly. Maybe this (untested):

  js>   $(shell echo "cvs co my_test"; cvs co my_test)

This won't work, because $(shell ...) is like ``.

You need something like:

  $(shell echo "cvs co my_test" 1>&2; cvs co my_test)

to send the message to stderr instead of stdout.

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