Re: depcomp testing

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:13:44AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 06:46:24AM CET:
[about "if $MAKE; then false; fi"]
> > * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 07:28:14AM CET:
> > > Let's write "$MAKE && exit 1" because that's what of the other test do, 
> > > and
> > > I'm wary that some shell will return the $? of $MAKE if it fails, in turn
> > > causing "set -e" to abort the script.  Don't ask me which shell, but 
> > > that's
> > > why we have "else :; fi" all over the Makefiles.
> >
> > I always thought that was because of the `sh -e -c "$cmd"' that some
> > make implementations used (see Autoconf portability section).

Isn't that exactly what I'm saying?

> And then I applied this patch to fix our thinko.  :-)

Huh???  Those two lines are fully equivalent to me.

> -  $MAKE && exit 1
> +  if $MAKE; then false; else :; fi