On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 1:14 PM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > sön 12 nov. 2023 kl. 19:02 skrev Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com > >: > >> In my adventures with tools/dev/unix-build/Makefile.svn, I saw two places >> that call '-which', that is, 'which' preceded by a dash. >> >> One of these is in the recipe for gettext's configure. It was changed >> from 'which' to '-which' in r1577186. >> >> I'm not familiar with this. What does '-which' do, and how is it >> different from 'which'? >> > > Maybe it is just a make-ism to ignore errors? See the gnu make manual at > [1]: > “To ignore errors in a recipe line, write a ‘-’ at the beginning of the > line’s text (after the initial tab). The ‘-’ is discarded before the line > is passed to the shell for execution.” > > Kind regards > Daniel > > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Errors.html > Ah, that's it! Evidently I was flustered from the other issues and missed that. Thanks! Nathan <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Errors.html> >
