On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 09:36, Paul Jarc<p...@po.cwru.edu> wrote: > Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: ... >> Thanks, Paul, but that didn't work, probably because in the top >> Makefile the RUNDIR is in relative form while your construction puts >> it in absolute form. > > In that case: > % : > cd $(MASTERDIR) && \ > pwd=`$(MASTERDIR)/relative-pwd` && > $(MAKE) RUNDIR="$${pwd?}" $@ ...
Wow, what a make/sh script master! It will be a while before I can try it (I think with an added '\'), but I'll report back after the "honey do" list is done. Thanks Paul, for your fortitude. Regards, -Tom