Capturing the PID of a background process started by a Makefile

Question

I have a Makefile that starts a Django web server. I would like the server to be started in the background, with the PID saved to a file.

My recipe looks like this:<

Answer 1

If Make gives you too much trouble, you can always have the target launch an sh script; in that script, launch the process, background, and then output the pid to a file.