Here's the minimal makefile needed to reproduce it, and a transcript:
,--- detect.mk ---
build-stamp:
echo $@
build-arch: build-stamp
`---
$ make --version | head -n1
GNU Make 3.81
$ make -f detect.mk -qn build-arch; echo $?
1
$ make --version | head -n1
GNU Make 4.0
$ make -f detect.mk -qn build-arch; echo $?
2
On Wed, Apr 30 2014, Paul Smith wrote:
> This is definitely a bug in GNU make 4.0 in handling -q (note the -n
> is not relevant: you can leave it out and get the same behavior). The
> docs are clear on what the exit codes should be, and with -q make
> should exit with 1 if something needs to be updated and no error was
> detected.
manoj
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