In Unix, can I run 'make' in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first?

Question

In Unix, can I run 'make' in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first?

Answer 1

From '$ man make' :

-C dir, --directory=dir

Change to directory dir

before reading the make‐

files or doing anything

else. If multiple -C

options are specified, each

is interpreted relative to

the previous one: -C / -C

etc is equivalent to -C

/etc. This is typically

used with recursive invoca‐

tions of make.