Re: The .ONESHELL: special target does not appear to work

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 17:31 +1300, Jim Walls wrote:
> I need to be able to run several recipe lines within the same shell.  I 
> know that I can string all the commands together in a single line - but 
> I have a quite complex recipe for the target, so being to execute the 
> entire recipe in a single shell is quite attractive to me.  The 
> .ONESHELL: special target is supposed to do this - but I don't seem to 
> be able to get it to work... am I missing something?

> $ make -v
> GNU Make 3.81

The .ONESHELL feature was added in GNU make 3.82.

See the NEWS file:

Version 3.82
  ...
* New special target: .ONESHELL instructs make to invoke a single instance
  of the shell and provide it with the entire recipe, regardless of how many
  lines it contains.
  ...


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