RE: make

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Leeuwesteijn,Joost" <address@hidden> writes:

  dw> I was wondering if there when using Cygnus "make". Is there a
  dw> MAKESTATUS Marco to check the previous command exit status?

  >> I'm not at all sure how you intend to use such a thing... I don't see
  >> very many, if any, ways to use it.

  l> Perhaps the same reason I posted a question on how to handle
  l> non-zero exit codes without using '-' (IGNORE_ERROR) in front of a
  l> command. My compiler also returns a non-zero exit code in case of
  l> (just) warnings.

I don't see any way that a MAKESTATUS make macro could possibly help
your situation.  All that would do is set the make variable MAKESTATUS
to the exit code of the command--that is irrelevant to your issue.

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