On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:07 +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a target like:
> foo: dep1 dep2
> $(MAKE) -c tests
> rm -Rf $(tests_tmp)
>
> However, this fails to work as intended since the clean (rm -Rf...) is
> not executed is $(MAKE) -c tests fail.
>
> I want to always execute the clean unconditionall but the exit code
> generated by foo should be the one of $(MAKE) -c tests.
>
> Any tips on how to achieve this?
This is really more of a shell scripting question than a make question,
but something like:
foo: dep1 dep2
$(MAKE) -c tests; r=$$?; rm -Rf $(tests_tmp); exit $$r
will do the trick.
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