Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/19/2005 08:15:51 PM:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:52:20PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > As there is no "false" command on VMS, this is causing rerunning a make > > to fail. > > > > Would adding the following line before the return $m be the fix for > > this? Or is something else needed to make sure only the last line is > > removed? > > > > $m =~ s/false\n// if $IsVMS; > > I see a number of uses of "false" in MM_Unix. Rather than throw in more > VMS exceptions (blech) I'll make a $(FALSE) which can be something safe like > perl -e 'exit 1' On VMS the construct shown is true since exit 1 is the way to say exit 0. I note the following behavior from the shell on Solaris 10: /home/user/pprymmer> false /home/user/pprymmer> echo $? 255 Hence you may want to use something like 44 on VMS (noting that a message will be generated): $ perl -e "exit 44" %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort the non portability of exit values is discussed in perlport.pod. Peter Prymmer
