Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 23:00:15 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: wosch@DE.FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6550 Message-ID: <19980508230015.42987@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199805082009.NAA12701@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:09:44PM -0700 References: <199805082009.NAA12701@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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 <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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