Beware: echo $$? With 2 $, as that is a shell variable.
----- stephan Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity and typos. On Feb 10, 2015 10:57 AM, "Reinier Post" <reinp...@win.tue.nl> wrote: > On Mon Feb 9 12:35:36 2015, psm...@gnu.org (Paul Smith) wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 16:19 +0000, David Aldrich wrote: > > > If I deliberately introduce a syntax error into one of my C files, > > > make calls gcc to build the file, as expected, and an error is > > > reported as text in bash. However, the exit code (checked using echo > > > $?) returns 0. If I run the gcc command from the bash command line, > > > the exit code is 1. > > > > > > Why might make return 0 instead of 1 in the case of this compiler > > > error? > > Guess: you're checking it like this: > > %.o: %.c > $(CC) -c -o $@ $< > @echo $? > > That won't work: each line will use a separate shell invocation, unless > > .ONESHELL: > > is specified. > > -- > Reinier Post > > _______________________________________________ > Help-make mailing list > Help-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
