On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, German Escallon
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First things first. How can I know if my script succeeded or not?? I've tried reading and printing the $? environment variable. Here's what I've tried with a script that should always fail.
e.g:
@$(shell /path/to/my/script.sh)
@echo "result: $$?"
That is TWO shell scripts, from the point of view of make. Change it to:
and it will work as you want, as long as the script itself returns non-0 for error. Do not use $(shell) to execute shell code from within a recipe (except under very unusual conditions, maybe).
The line always prints "result: 0", regardless of the result.
Because make sees it as a line of its own, and each logical line is a different script as far as make is concerned, and it starts a different subshell for each line.
When I run this same script on the console, and then echo the $? variable, I always get the error code I'm hoping for.
ECHOing the error code will return code 0 (regardless of what it prints) and will not cause make to exit.