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Re: incorrect return code on vms...


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: incorrect return code on vms...
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:18:26 -0500

Larry Jones wrote:

> Derek R. Price writes:
> There isn't any.  I wasn't arguing for or against that change, just
> explaining why things are the way they are.
>
> > We're talking about a few lines in configure.in, maybe one
> > in acconfig.h, a line in system.h, and a single line in main.  I'll do
> > the work, or what Donald hasn't done already.
>
> Remember that autoconf only works on Unix-like systems.  I don't think
> that's a big problem, but if you're going to have multiple exit
> statuses, you should probably #define them in such a way that they can
> be overridden in a system-dependent way.

Is there any reason I shouldn't have autoconf define
NONBINARY_EXIT_FAILURE or some such and then in cvs.h, if that isn't defined
use the EXIT_FAILURE defined in <stdlib.h>?  It doesn't seem to be the usual
way of overriding system specific values, but as long as it is done before
system.h is sourced or better yet only done '#ifndef EXIT_FAILURE',
EXIT_FAILURE could still be overridden on a system specific basis when
autoconf didn't work.


> > P.S.  run.c already seems to non-portably _exit() with bash's 127 when
> > it can't exec a program.
>
> Like I said, CVS isn't quite there yet.

And refreshing my memory, run.c is one of the source files that tends to get
overridden on a system specific basis.

Derek

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