Or you can let Make handle it all with no reliance on shells at all.
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_chapter/make_5.html#SEC56
To ignore errors in a command line, write a `-' at the beginning of the line's text (after the initial tab). The `-' is discarded before the command is passed to the shell for execution.
For example,
clean:
-rm -f *.oDavid Boyce wrote:
At 09:27 PM 2/1/2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vite Schnell) writes:
vs> I'm trying to prevent Make from exiting upon receiving a non-zero vs> exit status value from a command. Is there any way I can "trap" a vs> failure in order to keep processing other targets?
foo: command || true
I prefer to save a fork/exec and also remove an unnecessary dependence on PATH:
foo: command ||:
Of course there are some shells for which "true" is a builtin but ":" has been one since the beginning of time.
-dsb
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