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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: make error -- cd: not found
Date: 13 Feb 1997 02:42:48 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <5ds7f3$5s0$2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) writes:
> In article <5dovam$ije@uuneo.neosoft.com> conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
>
>>This is a strange one! Doing a "make install" on leafnode-1.0 (I'm in the
>>process of porting it; the build itself went fine):
>>
>> cd $(SPOOLDIR)/message.id <-- this directory already created
>>
>>Make returns the error "cd: not found".
>
> This is an optimisation misfeature of make(1). Make(1) attempts to
> execute directly cd(1) - without using /bin/sh - and did not find
> cd. cd(1) is not a command, it is a shell builtin and work only as a
> shell builtin.
>
> Try:
> cd $(SPOOLDIR)/message.id;
> ^
> The semicolon force make to use /bin/sh
Ah! Thanks for the tip.
Yes, in looking over a Makefile from another port, I discovered this, only
I changed the line to:
csh -c 'cd $(SPOOLDIR)/message.id'
Kind of overkill compared to your version. :-)
Thanks.
--
Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads