Thanks for the pointers, will use || true. And yes, I don't care about the exit status, just want to get the variable assigned or not.
It is shell (trying to move gmake's shell directive). -Amarendra -- sent via recycled electrons from mobile command center. > On Aug 14, 2025, at 6:34 PM, Chris Ross <cross+open...@distal.com> wrote: > > If you truely don’t care about the exit status and just want to ignore it, > you can use “|| true” which is more clear than “echo -n” IMO. You shouldn’t > need the subshell (parens). Unless that’s a syntax requirement of whatever > you’re doing this in. (Is this shell? make ? You didn’t say.) > > - Chris > >> On Aug 14, 2025, at 00:55, Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Run into an issue where the following prints an error message: >> GIT_TAG != git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --exact-match 2>/dev/null >> ... >> *** Warning in /home/ag/src/helm: "git describe --tags --abbrev=0 >> --exact-match 2>/dev/null" returned non-zero status (Makefile:36) >> I can address this by doing: >> GIT_TAG != (git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --exact-match 2>/dev/null) >> || echo -n >> Is there a better way to handle this? >> Thanks. >> -ag
