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Re: issue with TCSH and gmake


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: issue with TCSH and gmake
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:50:14 -0400

%% "Asperheim, Eric" <address@hidden> writes:

  ae> Does anyone know of a way to do this inside gmake - eliminating
  ae> need for wait_for.tcsh script?

I know next to nothing about tcsh, but why doesn't something like this:

  foo:
        command to create $@
        while (! -e $@); sleep 5; end

work?  If you were using SHELL = sh instead of tcsh, this would be
trivial.

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