On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:45:31PM +0100, Peter Kaiser wrote: > > Hello Carlos > > <snip> > > > > I think it'd be nice to have the backend returning some value depending > > > on the number of errors and warnings, so it would be easy to do that > > > kind of tests in Makefiles. > > > > > > So maybe return a different value for each possible situation: > > > - No errors. > > > - Only warnings. > > > - Errors. > > > > agreed. Using (error "errorstring") in the scheme code you can > > make gnetlist error out with a non-zero error code, but I'm not sure > > how to signal to gnetlist that there are warnings and it should return > > that. > > > > What do you think of having a command line option which prevents warnings > > from giving an error code? > > I agree too. As far as I understand, make stops when a program returns a > nonzero exit code. So the user must decide somehow, whether a warning should > stop execution or not. May be it's easier to put a flag in the scheme code.
that is correct. when a program returns a nonzero exit code make stops. Thats exactly why I thought it would be good to have a flag to say 'warnings don't give nonzero exit codes'. -Dan --
