Paul Vojta wrote:
> > From: Luc Van Eycken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > This is due to the fact that exit does not set the $? variable and leaves
> > it to whatever the previous command returned. This happens on all my
> > platforms, except Linux.
>
> Can you tell us some (preferably all) platfor
> this problem? I'd always thought that "exit x" should set $? to x on all
> platforms.
I guess that the systems in question don't show "rc=0" when executing the
following code:
/bin/sh -c "trap 'echo rc=\$?; exit \$rc' 0; false; exit 0"
On Linux with bash and with the /bin/sh on Sun Solaris
> From: Luc Van Eycken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:54:06 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems with texlinks and fmtutil
>
> I just tried to install the latest 20020829 beta but I ran into problems
> with texlinks and fmtutil on s
I just tried to install the latest 20020829 beta but I ran into problems
with texlinks and fmtutil on some platforms (not on Linux).
The texlinks script returns 1 instead of 0 even if no errors occurred.
This is due to the fact that exit does not set the $? variable and leaves
it to whatever the
