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Re: make returning spurious 4522468 errors
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: make returning spurious 4522468 errors |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:45:59 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:51:03 -0800
> From: tom honermann <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
>
> On 1/8/2010 3:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If you plumb these holes and rebuild Make, does the problem go away?
> >
> > If it does, I will be more than happy to include your suggested
> > changes in the development sources.
> >
> Nope, the problem doesn't go away - because, it turns out the problem is
> not in GNU make at
> all! After more investigation, I found that the shell we are using (An
> old Windows port of zsh)
> is responsible for this. Make is reporting the correct exit value from
> the shell, but the shell is
> not reporting the correct exit value from the command that was run.
Ah! zsh... Do your Makefiles really depend on a Unixy shell features?
If not, any reason you couldn't stop using zsh and rely on cmd.exe
instead?
> Thanks for following up Eli! I'm constantly impressed with the support
> you and Paul (and others
> of course) provide for GNU make!
Well, my personal contributions are quite small, but thanks anyway.