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Re: error checking version of $(shell)
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Paul Smith |
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Re: error checking version of $(shell) |
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Tue, 19 May 2020 09:09:20 -0400 |
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 19:16 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> # I'm hoping
> # for a little more feedback from paul declaring that the parser is indeed
> # sequential and .SHELLSTATUS is indeed per-process, so that this is ok.
GNU make is not multithreaded and all invocations of $(shell ...)
functions happen serially and are completed before the next step is
taken, and .SHELLSTATUS is a normal make variable (that is, it's
globally set when the shell function runs).
Your second option should work fine.