On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 09:25 -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > but in reality the "-silent" switch even disable the "fail-on-
> > error" feature
>
> Rathern, I suspect yuo have something in the Makefile
> which inspects the flags (MAKEFLAGS variable), and produces different
> behavior.
Agreed. It's definitely NOT the case that the silent switch will
disable fail-on-error.
Example:
$ cat Makefile
all: ; false
$ make --version
GNU Make 4.4
Build for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
...
$ make
false
make: *** [Makefile:1: all] Error 1
$ make -s
make: *** [Makefile:1: all] Error 1
You can see that even with -s we still get a failure.
You will have to keep looking at your makefiles to figure out what the
real problem is. I agree with Kaz; you should search your makefiles
for places where you try to parse MAKEFLAGS since the contents of
MAKEFLAGS changed in 4.4.
