%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jg> Could the signals and errors that Make displays include the text jg> description of them? The same way that other programs do not jg> return the errno.h value, but the text that it corresponds too.
jg> e.g.: jg> Signal 127 GNU make does print the signal number as long as it can determine the right one. If you are seeing this, then it means GNU make got a signal it couldn't translate. This often means that the configuration for your system was inaccurate, or that your system doesn't provide proper signal translation facilities. Since you don't specify what type of system you're working on I can't give more help than that, but your next example seems to imply it's DOS, Windows, or similar. In that case you should check on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list and see whether signal translation has been ported to work on DOS/Windows platforms. jg> z:\bin\make.exe: *** [mak19] Error 255 It is not appropriate for make to translate this code into an errno value, because it is _NOT_ an errno value. This code is the return value from the program that make invoked, and that return value is virtually never an errno value. In the example you give here, for example, the invoked program exited with a -1 exit code, which is not a valid errno value. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make