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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 18:50:53 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: make problem -- does not terminate on error
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Andrew,

Have you tried running the command that fails (in the same way that "make" 
runs it under the circumstances in question) in a shell and seeing what 
error status it reports back? Is it indeed reporting a non-zero exit status 
(in addition to printing an error diagnostic)?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 17:52 2002-07-31, aek AT pumpkininc DOT com wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I use make recursively to build a large number of libraries.
>
>Recently I added a new set of libraries to my makefile targets, using a new
>compiler (aq430.exe from Archelon). With this compiler (and not with any
>others I've tried, e.g. gcc), when an error is encountered, e.g:
>
>1 fatal error
>aq430: aq430c error return -1 -- processing terminated
>
>make just keeps on going instead of stopping. This happens on Win2k and
>Win98 machines. Note that above, aq430.exe call aq430c.exe.
>
>Archelon tested my makefiles under mingw32 make v3.79.1, and there, it
>behaves properly.
>
>Any ideas why this problem occurs under Cygwin and not mingw32?
>
>I'm using the latest version of Cygwin.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andrew


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