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

[Maxim Yegorushkin]

On 12/01/10 21:57, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:43 +0000, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
> > > Yeah, it's ugly, but it works everywhere.
> >
> > Why not simply:
> >
> >     $(MAKE) error 2>&1 | grep error; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
> >
> > ?
>
> Note the sentence I quoted from Philip's email.
>
> PIPESTATUS is a bash-specific feature, so it in no way "works
> everywhere".  It won't even work on all GNU/Linux systems, including one
> of the most popular (Ubuntu).  And it has almost no chance at all of
> working on any non-GNU/Linux system.

Oh, sorry I missed that.

> It would make my "real life" job so much easier if people writing
> scripts would understand that bash != sh, and that bash is not available
> everywhere...

I admit I may have been spoilt by bash :)

Max