On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:04 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff Trawick wrote: >> >> As far as repairing, I switched to the syntax used elsewhere in the >> makefile. But I'll try the other syntax very shortly. > > IIRC that syntax was selected to avert the makefile from aborting in case of > failure.
Is this a valid test? (sorry, in the middle of getting the 10 YO off to school) $ if test -f Makefile.apxs; then ls /not/home; fi ls: cannot access /not/home: No such file or directory $ echo $? 2 $ if test -f Makefile.apxs; then ( ls /not/home ); fi ls: cannot access /not/home: No such file or directory $ echo $? 2 > > As it now stands, we check the file existence. But that doesn't mean this > can't > fail due to permissions, etc. >
