Re: [Groff] Typesetting with groff from Makefiles

[Bernd Warken]

Keith MARSHALL <address@hidden> schrieb am 21.06.05 12:44:20:
> 
> > I'll simply use a modified version of Keith's suggestion:
> >
> > foo.ps: foo.ms
> >                groff --some-options foo.ms >$@ \
> >                || ($(RM) $@; false)
> 
> Indeed, you can use `false', instead of `exit 1', as I suggested.
> But note that `false' is *not* a shell builtin in standard Bourne
> shell -- it is in `ksh' or `bash' -- so you are potentially adding
> an extra external process invocation here.

But `false' is part of POSIX.  That should be enough.  You cannot use the 
original Bourne style for much; it does not even have shell functions.

Bernd Warken

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