Re: Suggestion for "errexit" equivalent for $(shell ...)

[DSB]

BTW the $(or ...) is backward compatibility for make 3.x which did not have
.SHELLSTATUS. On 3.x this macro devolves to behaving just like $(shell ...).

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 11:12 PM paul david <paul.david@redbubble.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2023-12-27 at 08:55 -05, quoth DSB <yahoo@boyski.com>:
> > I see that you've researched this thoroughly and aren't asking for
> suggestions other than an answer to your .SHELL_ERREXIT question but I
> still thought I'd offer the macro I wrote to solve this. It's not as easy
> as a flag but at least it's a line-for-line replacement.
>
> This is fascinating -- yesterday i actually spent a few hours trying to
> write a macro that does exactly that, but between returning values and
> whitespace issues i didn't manage.  Your macro is what i was trying to
> achieve, so might well be the first acceptable stopgap measure i've
> encountered.
>
> Thanks for sharing that snippet, i'll give it a go.  I'd still be
> interested in the possibility of adding a flag or option though :).
>
> Cheers,
> p.
>
>