On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 3:28 PM Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh. I see the problem. If the shell exits with an exit code of 127 > then make's shell function assumes that it failed because the sub- > process was not found, and it actually writes its output to stderr!!
This behavior is correct, is not it? $ cat makefile SHELL:=/badpath/bash value:=$(shell echo hello world) all: ; $(info $(value)) $ make >/dev/null make: /badpath/bash: No such file or directory $ stdout is redirected to /dev/null, but the user still wants to see errors. Is not this scenario what stderr was invented for? On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 4:48 PM Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I decided this was a bug and changed the behavior for the next release. What is the new behavior? regards, Dmitry
