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From: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: make error -- cd: not found
Date: 12 Feb 1997 10:53:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: conrads@neosoft.com's message of 11 Feb 1997 05:16:06 GMT
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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
Wolfram