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VMS exit status fixes.


From: John E. Malmberg
Subject: VMS exit status fixes.
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 11:05:42 -0600
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In checking the GNU make documentation, it states that error code 1 is for when make -q is used and the test fails.

As this is considered a failure status on Unix (non-zero), it should also be considered a failure status on VMS.

It best matched to a failure status of STS$K_WARNING, with the error code 2 be STS$K_ERROR as it is now.

The other logical alternative would be for severity for MAKE_TROUBLE to also to be STS$K_ERROR, which would force DCL scripts to actually look at the status code to determine the difference.

To have MAKE_TROUBLE be informational status would not be correct since it is documented to be a failure condition.

Regards,
-John






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