Re: Exit status ignored during variable expansion?

[Angel Tsankov]

On 07/28/11 23:41, Stephan Beal wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Angel Tsankov<address@hidden>wrote:
>
> > If 'make' does not fail on non-zero exit from a command (during variable
> > expansion) then we have no way to determine if the command completed
> > successfully (with empty output) or if it failed.  This is my only concern.
>
> Here's one way to do this:
>
> X := $(shell ....>/dev/null 2>&1&&  echo 1 || echo 0)

That seems to work, but seems cumbersome... :(