Re: $(shell ...) exit status

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:09 +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
> The command fails, and 'make' stops--on msw, e.g., I get:
> 
>   process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, false, ...) failed.

That must be a bug in the MSW version of GNU make.  On a POSIX system
there is no message or error if the command invoked by the shell exits
with a non-zero (failure) exit code.

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