Re: make: how to selectively handle exit status of commands

[Stan Brown]

"Paul Jarc" <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote in gnu.utils.help:
>Stephan Petersen <cyber.mail883.10.spasp@xoxy.net> wrote:
>> What's the best way to deal with such cases, where make should abort
>> for *some* exit status values (e.g. > 40), but continue for others
>> (e.g. <= 40).
>
>target: deps
>       foo; expr "$$?" '<=' 40 > /dev/null

I know that MAKE incorporates some work-alikes for bits of the UNIX 
shells, so that even under DOS it does an "rm" to remove 
intermediate files.

Is there a document somewhere that explains just which bits of UNIX 
shell are included in MAKE I'd live to be able to write command 
lines like the above in my 4DOS-under-Win98 environment, but I don't 
feel comfortable about it unless I know the limits.

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