Hi, > I see things like `cd builtins && $(MAKE) ...` in the Makefiles in > bash source code. GNU Make has the option of -C for entering a > directory and make. Is the reason to cd then make for compatibility > with other make's that don't support -C? Thanks.
I'm afraid that you are in wrong mailing list. I'm putting this list on bcc. You can consider asking at one of autotools lists https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html I would choose automake one. But yes, I believe that it's because not every make clone has -C. Cheers -- Vlad