Re: [PATCH] prevent make from going crazy without SUITE

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jeffrey Oldham wrote:

> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The following patch prevents make from going crazy without a
> > configured tree (i.e. no SUITE) (remember: exit 1 doesnt do
> > anything good in $(shell ...) invocations...)
>
> I believe the original echo message provides more intuitive information
> to the user.  Can we use it with your change to 'exit'?

Well :) The message isnt going to the user, but is used as value for SUITE
in the makefile - remember, a makefile $(shell cmd) cmd does not care
about exit values of the command, but just evaluates to the cmds output.

So at the moment SUITE becomes 'no such file config/*.suite.mk' or the
like, with my changes it becomes '#NoSuiteFile' and this value causes the
makefile to abort later rather than going completely crazy and creating
random directories and files around the curren directory.

Now ok without changes?

Richard.