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From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> I don't agree with the arguments, but I don't understand
> 
> - Switch from ; to && in order to not hide cd errors or run the make 
> command in
>  the wrong directory.
> 
> either. Both give
> 
>  cd: can't cd to /nonexistent
>  *** Error code 2
> 
> and stop the build, or do you do use make -i regularly?

Is it guaranteed that make will always under all circumstances run the
shell with the "-e" flag? And if it does, does GNU make from the ports
do that as well? The '&&' variant will do The Right Thing® with and
without the -e flag passed down the /bin/sh, whereas a 'cd /nonexistent ;
rm -rf * .??*' will happily erase the current working directory if
/nonexistent is non-existent and the shell is run without -e.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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