Package: make
Version: 4.0-8
Severity: normal
Sample Makefile:
# --------------------------
foo: bar
echo foo
bar:
$(MAKE) baz
echo "lala"
baz:
echo baz
# --------------------------
$ make -q foo; echo $?
make baz
Makefile:4: recipe for target 'bar' failed
make: *** [bar] Error 1
2
The fine manual says
,----
| If the exit status is one, then some updating needs to be done. If
| make encounters an error, the exit status is two, so you can
| distinguish an error from a target that is not up to date.
`----
This is technically kindof correct, although _why_ the error occurs is
mysterious. In particular, adding a comment before the recursive make, i.e.
bar:
# lalala
$(MAKE) baz
echo "lala"
causes make -q bar to return 1.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages make depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-11
make recommends no packages.
Versions of packages make suggests:
pn make-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
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