Re: shell trap builtin in rules

[Paul D. Smith]

On Wednesday, 8 November, Martin Sebor (address@hidden) wrote:

> > It works for me.  Maybe it's your shell?
> 
> Apparently. I originally ran my code on Solaris. I have tried
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sh but got the same results. AIX, HP-UX, IRIX,
> and Tru64 all behave the same as well. Bash is the only shell
> that produces the result I expect.

Odd.  Can you try this without make involved; what behavior do you get?

    $ /bin/sh -c "trap 'echo \$?' EXIT && exit 1"

?

Also, try using "0" instead of EXIT; maybe the other shells don't accept the
translated values?

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