The environment is passed on to it's child processes by make, so if you can
find a way to push the pid of your make run into one then you're done.
a) Invoke make as follows:
tmpf=`mktemp`
TMPF="$tmpf" make -f yourmakefile yourtarget &
pid=$!
echo "$pid" > $tmpf
wait "$pid"
rm -f "$tmpf"
Thanks for the nudge in the right direction but...
... an easier way to make that happen is to introduce an initial bash
script:
#!/bin/bash
export ROOT_PID=$$
make -f yourmakefile yourtarget
[This will set the bash script's PID into the env of all descendants (which
is good enough for our purpo
You may want to restrict the extent of the env to the make (+ it's children)
rather than the whole bash script, with the following:
ROOT_PID="$$"make -fyourmakefileyourtarget
--Rakesh
From: Jonathan Leonard
Sent: Sunday, November 6
