Re: How to check if a file exists?

[Garrett Cooper]

On May 20, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Hongliang Wang wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I need to use a very very stupid Windows application to produce  
> something, while this application does not have any return code or  
> error message, so the only way that I can check whether building  
> succeed is to check if the output file exist after building ...
>
> now this is my Makefile, could anybody tell me if this is the  
> correct way to do this?
>
> =============================
> kit: xml
>         @echo ' \ncompiling $(XML) ...'
>         -$(RM) $(OUTPUT)/*.exe
>         '$(BITROCK_SYSTEM)' build '$(XML)' windows
>         if test -e $(OUTPUT)/*.exe; \
>         then @echo ' compiling success! ...'; \
>                else @echo ' compiling failes ...'; \
>         fi
> =============================
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hongliang Wang

Why not use wildcard instead?
-Garrett