Re: Trapping failed commands

[Jason Pearce]

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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