Re: How to check if a file exists?

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-05-20 11:55Z, Hongliang Wang wrote:
[Paul Smith wrote:]
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 01:29 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> Why not use wildcard instead?
>>
>> You can't use make functions here, because they are all evaluated by
>> make BEFORE the command is invoked. Hongliang wants to see whether the
>> file exists AFTER the command has run.
> 
> Yes, Do you have any suggestions?

I see nothing wrong with your original code:

        if test -e $(OUTPUT)/*.exe; \
        then @echo ' compiling success! ...'; \
                else @echo ' compiling failes ...'; \
        fi

except that '@' is 'make' syntax, not shell syntax, so
just write 'echo' instead of '@echo'.