Re: FYI: two $exit_code and a fatal

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

 >>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
 adl> * automake.in (usage, version): Honor $exit_code.

 Tom> These are always supposed to exit with status 0 according to the GCS.

Ouch!  I didn't know.

The point here is that 

  automake -Werror -Wnonexistant-category

will print a warning that `nonexistant-category' is unsupported,
then do the rest of it's work, and finally exit with 1 because
of -Werror.

So it seems to makes sense that 

  automake -Werror -Wnonexistant-category --help

exits with 1 too.  Otherwise we'd be ignoring errors the
user requested.

Akim told me that one way to comply with the GCS this is to make
a first pass on the command line to handle the --version and
--help options, and then proceed with the other switches in a
second pass.  I'll try to do that this evening.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz