Re: How to stop building when sub-make returns error

[Harvey Chapman]

For more information on pipes and errors, search for "pipefail" in the bash man 
page. http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash

On Jan 12, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Paljas wrote:

> 
> It's not a bug. Make will react on the return status of a command. Commands
> in Make are executed in Bash. The last command in the pipe is 'grep', which
> returns a value of '1' if it does not find a occurrence of the search
> string. The $(MAKE) command returns a '2', which would stop Make from
> continuing, if it weren't for the 'grep' command.
> 
> So basically, you should make sure that Make is able to capture what you
> believe should be an error!
> 
> 
> elight wrote:
>> 
>>      $(MAKE) error 2>&1 | grep error
>> 
>> Redirection and piping make different result.
>> Hmm. It's a bug or not?
>> 
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