Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/20/2005 01:12:51 PM:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:15:41AM -0400, Peter Prymmer wrote: > > > perl -e 'exit 1' > > > > On VMS the construct shown is true since exit 1 is the way to say exit 0. > > I thought this only happens with "use vmsish 'exit'" on. Oh yes. I am sorry. C<perl -e 'exit 1'> on Unix and C<perl -e "exit 1"> on VMS may give you what you want (below I'll ask why you want it). > > I note the following behavior from the shell on Solaris 10: > > > > /home/user/pprymmer> false > > /home/user/pprymmer> echo $? > > 255 > > Solaris is Weird. Indeed. By the way, why is `false` desirable to have in a Makefile? Why does MakeMaker need to know how to do it? Thanks. Peter Prymmer
