On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:06:59AM +0000, Jason Pearce wrote:
>I have discovered a problem in cygwin's Make.
>
>I am calling a sub-make that goes to another directory. That bit works
>fine, but the Makefiles have a variable set from a shell command. That
>shell seems to be spawned from the wrong directory. I have created a
>small example illustrating the problem
>
>dir2/Makefile:
>---------------
>VARIABLE = $(shell echo $$PWD)
>
>target :
> ${MAKE} -C ../dir1 sources
> @echo VARIABLE set to ${VARIABLE}
You can't rely on PWD being set correctly. Use something like
$(shell pwd) instead.
cgf
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