4.3: -p: exit status is 2

Hello! While finding a way to truly detect whether being run by BSD make (which cannot supervise a shell script that turns on "set -m" to monitors its childs) i stumbled upon the fact that $ make -p exits 2. Even if i follow the manual advice $ make -p -f /dev/null i get complains (bad ma

Re: 4.3: -p: exit status is 2

On Sat, 2020-12-19 at 00:04 +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > While finding a way to truly detect whether being run by BSD make > (which cannot supervise a shell script that turns on "set -m" to > monitors its childs) i stumbled upon the fact that > > $ make -p > > exits 2. Yes. The manual say

Re: 4.3: -p: exit status is 2

Paul Smith wrote in <898afb17671ea69f18ae7a4ed22a57aa35eb87e0.ca...@gnu.org>: |On Sat, 2020-12-19 at 00:04 +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> While finding a way to truly detect whether being run by BSD make |> (which cannot supervise a shell script that turns on "set -m" to |> monitors its chi