RE: Some simple makefile help

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 18:11 -0500, Billy Patton wrote:
> Now how do I get make to ignore a status?
> 
> Lsh : rhs
> <tab>prog1
> <tab>prog2
> <tab>prog3 DON'T CARE ABOUT status
> <tab>prog4_check_output_of_prog3

Please always send to the mailing lists, not me directly, in case I'm
unavailable.

You can prefix any recipe line with "-" and make will ignore the result
code (or, put another way, assume it always succeeds).

See the GNU make manual section "Errors in Commands".