Re: problems with recursive make target

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello John,

* address@hidden wrote on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:36:09PM CEST:
> in top/lib/Makefile.am
> SUBDIRS = pika_comm pika_utilities
> # provide a separate recursive target for making tests
> tests : all
> echo `pwd`;
> for dir in $(SUBDIRS); do \
> cd $$dir && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $@ || exit 1; \
> done
> echo `pwd`;
> .PHONY : tests

You don't ever 'cd' back out of the first subdirectory, so you can't
find the second:

> make[2]: Leaving directory `/users/wohlbier/MPMC/pika/build/lib/pika_comm'
> /bin/sh: line 1: cd: pika_utilities: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [tests] Error 1

Cheers,
Ralf