Re: [Mingw-users] Make cd troubles

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Gisle Vanem wrote:
> 
> It's me agins with another Mingw32-make v.380 problem.
> (the depend problem of yesterday I fixed by splitting up into
> several makefiles. No other way).

Here's a rather different alternative:
  http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html

> I'm having troubles forcing make to cd into a dir to exec
> a perl script.[...]
> 
> SHELL = /bin/bash
> BROOT = g:/MingW/src/inet/bind
> 
> $(BROOT)/versions.h: $(BROOT)/version
>     ch $(BROOT)/win32utils
>     perl ./makeversion.pl
> 
> The script *must* be run in this dir. I assume make is smart enough
> to chdir back to it origin when the block is done.

Each command line executes in its own subshell. Try
    cd $(BROOT)/win32utils; perl ./makeversion.pl