Re: make switch option

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Anh-Khanh Tran" <address@hidden> writes:

  at> I have tried to search everywhere for the switch options but could not
  at> find them. I appreciate if you could point me to where I could find the
  at> switch option especially -a and -h. 
 
  at> This is an example from the Make script:
  at> @if [ ! -f rundir.ant/$*/ant.sum -a ! -d rundir.ant/$*/ant.sum  -a ! -h
  at> rundir.ant/$*/ant.sum ]; then exit 1 ; fi

The commands that make invokes are not make scripts, that's why you
won't find them documented in the make manual.

Make invokes a shell for each command, and passes the text of the
command script to the shell for parsing.


So, the -a, -h, etc. are options to the shell or in particular, in this
case, to the "test" program (aka "[").

-a means "and", and -h (in most versions) is true if the file is a
symbolic link.

See your shell man page and/or the man page for "test" for more details.

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