On 2007-2-21 13:45 UTC, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:09 +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> The command fails, and 'make' stops--on msw, e.g., I get:
>>
>> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, false, ...) failed.
>
> That must be a bug in the MSW version of GNU make. On a POSIX system
> there is no message or error if the command invoked by the shell exits
> with a non-zero (failure) exit code.
I misinterpreted what I saw: make doesn't actually stop.
x := $(shell false)
.PHONY: all
all:
@echo $x
@echo Done.
Result:
C:/tmp[0]$make
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, false, ...) failed.
Done.
The message about 'CreateProcess' is actually useful in many cases.
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