On Wed, 2026-11-04 at 18:31 -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > It shouldn't say that because that's not true. > > The "How to Run `make'" page describes the exit status of make and > it's true of "make -n" as well. In particular, it will have exit > status 2 if something fails, such as the processing to update a > Makefile, and "make -nq" will return 1 if something wasn't up to > date.
Right. Example: $ echo 'foo: ; +exit 1' | make -n -f- exit 1 make: *** [/tmp/GmVPa0Xa:1: foo] Error 1 $ echo $? 2
