Re: make returning spurious 4522468 errors

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:51:03 -0800
> From: tom honermann <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> On 1/8/2010 3:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If you plumb these holes and rebuild Make, does the problem go away?
> >
> > If it does, I will be more than happy to include your suggested
> > changes in the development sources.
> >   
> Nope, the problem doesn't go away - because, it turns out the problem is 
> not in GNU make at
> all!  After more investigation, I found that the shell we are using (An 
> old Windows port of zsh)
> is responsible for this.  Make is reporting the correct exit value from 
> the shell, but the shell is
> not reporting the correct exit value from the command that was run.

Ah! zsh...  Do your Makefiles really depend on a Unixy shell features?
If not, any reason you couldn't stop using zsh and rely on cmd.exe
instead?

> Thanks for following up Eli!  I'm constantly impressed with the support 
> you and Paul (and others
> of course) provide for GNU make!

Well, my personal contributions are quite small, but thanks anyway.