Re: Trapping failed commands

[Vite Schnell]

Great ideas, thanks for your help everyone!

Vite


Jason Pearce <address@hidden> wrote:

>Or you can let Make handle it all with no reliance on shells at all.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_chapter/make_5.html#SEC56
>
>
>To ignore errors in a command line, write a `-' at the beginning of the 
>line's text (after the initial tab). The `-' is discarded before the 
>command is passed to the shell for execution.
>
>For example,
>
>clean:
>        -rm -f *.o
>
>
>
>David Boyce wrote:
>
>> At 09:27 PM 2/1/2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> %% address@hidden (Vite Schnell) writes:
>>>
>>>   vs> I'm trying to prevent Make from exiting upon receiving a non-zero
>>>   vs> exit status value from a command.  Is there any way I can "trap" a
>>>   vs> failure in order to keep processing other targets?
>>>
>>> foo:
>>>       command || true
>>
>>
>> I prefer to save a fork/exec and also remove an unnecessary dependence 
>> on PATH:
>>
>> foo:
>>         command ||:
>>
>> Of course there are some shells for which "true" is a builtin but ":" 
>> has been one since the beginning of time.
>>
>> -dsb
>>
>>
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