On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:00:21AM +0200, bertrand marquis wrote: >Hello > > i'm having a strange problem with the make command and shell. > >i try to run a makefile with this : >HAVE_DEVFS := $(shell grep 'CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y' ../../linux/.config &> >/dev/null && echo "yes" || echo "no") > >the shell command is working out of a makefile but in the makefile the >HAVE_DEVFS variable only contain the output of the grep command. Does >anyone know why it doesn't work ?
make uses /bin/sh. /bin/sh doesn't understand the >& construct. It is not portable. Use HAVE_DEVFS := $(shell grep 'CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y' ../../linux/.config >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "yes" || echo "no") instead. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
