On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Stephen O'Loughlin < [email protected]> wrote:
> Say I have a makefile with the following... > > file4.txt: file3.txt > xterm -e "sleep 4 ; touch file4.txt" > > file1.txt: > xterm -e "sleep 4 ; touch file1.txt" > > file2.txt: file1.txt > xterm -e "sleep 4 ; touch file2.txt" > > file3.txt: file2.txt > xterm -e "sleep 4 ; touch file3.txt" > ... > supposed to build file2.txt. I would end up with file1.txt, file3.txt > and file4.txt, which isn't what I would expect or what I want. > <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make> Make cares here only about the return code from "xterm". xterm is apparently returning 0 when you close it (which is not unreasonable!). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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