Re: make 3.79 status problem

2000-06-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
Actually, further investigation yields the following (what I consider to be) inconsistency: $ echo 'all: ;' | make -q -f- ; echo $? 0 $ echo 'all: ; $X' | make -q -f- ; echo $? 1 To me, that's wrong; you should get the same result with a completely empty string as you do with a variable

Re: make 3.79 status problem

2000-06-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Albert L. Ting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: alt> Doing a "make -q" with the following makefile returns a 1 status alt> where it should really return a 0 status. Can this be fixed? I alt> know I could wrap an ifndef expression around the ALL commands, alt> but I use this a lot. al

Re: make 3.79 status problem

2000-06-16 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding make 3.79 status problem; you wrote: alt> Doing a "make -q" with the following makefile returns a 1 status alt> where it should really return a 0 status. Can this be fixed? I alt> know I could wrap an ifndef expression around the ALL commands, alt> but I use this a lot. Ca