Re: GMAKE 3.81 vs GMAKE 4.2

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 22:47 +0530, nikhil jain wrote:
> see this how it works in makefile. It is part of the target - 
> 
> bash-4.1$ cat Makefile
> a1:
>         trap 'USER_INT=1; /bin/echo "terminating, please wait...."' INT; \
>         sleep 100
> 
> bash-4.1$ make
> trap 'USER_INT=1; /bin/echo "terminating, please wait...."' INT; \
>         sleep 100
> ^Cterminating, please wait....
> make: *** [a1] Error 130
> 
> see this ? When make was executing sleep 100 , I gave ctrl+c and got
> my message " terminating, please wait". It did not go to
> fatal_error_signal at all.

It DID go to fatal_error_signal().  Why do you think it didn't?  Just
because your trap was called doesn't mean that make didn't catch the
signal.