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David Boyce wrote:
> How does one determine the exit status of the shell forked by $(shell
> ...)? I see nothing about it in the 3.81 online manual. I need to run
> a command for which the null string is a perfectly legal
> output value, so I can't get away with anything like this:
>
> foo := $(shell mycommand)
>
> ifeq($foo),)
> <code to handle error conditions>
> endif
If you don't care about the actual output of the command then you could
just do
exit_code := $(shell mycommand &> /dev/null ; echo $$?)
In which case you'll get the exit code of mycommand in exit_code. If
you need the output of the command and the exit code then I'd use a
temporary file to store the exit code like this
exit_code_file := /tmp/exit_code
output := $(shell mycommand ; echo $$? > $exit_code_file)
exit_code := $(shell cat $exit_code_file)
John.
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