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5.3 Command Execution
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When it is time to execute commands to update a target, they are
executed by invoking a new subshell for each command line. (In
practice, `make' may take shortcuts that do not affect the results.)
*Please note:* this implies that setting shell variables and
invoking shell commands such as `cd' that set a context local to each
process will not affect the following command lines.(1) If you want to
use `cd' to affect the next statement, put both statements in a single
command line. Then `make' will invoke one shell to run the entire
line, and the shell will execute the statements in sequence. For
example:
foo : bar/lose
cd $(@D) && gobble $(@F) > ../$@
Here we use the shell AND operator (`&&') so that if the `cd' command
fails, the script will fail without trying to invoke the `gobble'
command in the wrong directory, which could cause problems (in this
case it would certainly cause `../foo' to be truncated, at least).
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* Choosing the Shell How `make' chooses the shell used
to run commands.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) On MS-DOS, the value of current working directory is *global*, so
changing it _will_ affect the following command lines on those systems.
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