Re: infinite 'make' recursion building Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 22:11:23 +0200
> From: "Chris Moore" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> If you look at the last target in Makefile.in you'll see lines like:
> 
>       -(cd man &&   $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) clean)
> 
> are already there.
> 
> Now that doesn't prove that it's portable, but it shows that someone
> at one point thought it was.

Perhaps it's my failing memory, but I think I heard somewhere that
"foo && bar" has more problems than "foo; bar".  Let's wait for
someone in the know to give a definitive answer.