Re: Checking the exit status of a command executed from within a GNUmakefile

[David Boyce]

At 04:48 PM 2/17/2005, Benjamin Edwards wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting the exit status of a
> command executed from within a GNUmakefile.  I'm
> executing the command using backticks, but I'm not
> able to get the exit status of that command.  I'm
> trying to access the exit status using "$?", but that
> doesn't seem to work for me.
>
> example snippet -
>
> target: clean
>         for file in $(FILES) ; do \
>                 echo "   => Processing $$file" ; \
>                 `<command>` ; \
>                 echo "RETURN CODE == $?" ; \
>         done ; \
>
> Any ideas?  What am I doing incorrectly here?

You need $$?, just as you needed $$file above.

The test case shows no reason for using the backquotes, BTW.

-David Boyce