From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri May 8 16:22:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08877 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08727; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous235.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.235]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23078; Fri, 8 May 1998 23:00:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA00432; Fri, 8 May 1998 23:00:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980508230015.42987@panke.de> Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 23:00:15 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: wosch@DE.FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6550 References: <199805082009.NAA12701@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199805082009.NAA12701@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:09:44PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1998-05-08 13:09:44 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: phk > State-Changed-When: Fri May 8 13:08:14 PDT 1998 > State-Changed-Why: > The canonical way to do this is to use /bin/false rather than > exit. Using exit would result in potentially confusing exit codes from make > which would be A Bad Thing. The `potentially confusing exit code' is intentionally. A workaround is to use a meta char to force using sh -c, e.g. the semicolon. exit 3; -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message