On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 10:55 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30 2014, Paul Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 18:19 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> build-stamp: > >> echo $@ > >> > >> build-arch: build-stamp > > > >> $ make --version | head -n1 > >> GNU Make 4.0 > >> $ make -f detect.mk -qn build-arch; echo $? > >> 2 > > > > 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. > > Opened bug in Savannah BTS: > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42249
Yes, thanks to Guillem for the repro case. I see the problem; there's a failure to propagate the correct exit code up through prerequisites. I tried a quick fix but it was not sufficient; I'll need to look into it further this evening. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398883455.14617.7.camel@pdsdesk
