On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 19:45 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:08:35 -0400 (EDT) > Markus Elfring <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > > The semicolon indicates at the end that the return value is ignored > > there. I imagine that further data processing should usually only > > be performed if this command succeeded. > > Would you like to improve the exception handling for such a > > situation? > > If you really think that is a bug you should file that bug to the > writers of the shell. Make calls commands in a shell and the result > is as in the shell.
I think Markus is suggesting that the example in the documentation be improved to not have this problem regarding losing the return value. That's probably a good idea, although this entire method of managing automatically generated dependencies is essentially obsolete. Arguably this entire section should be rewritten from scratch to use more modern methods. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
