From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: Trouble with make
Date: 19 Nov 1996 08:54:11 GMT
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Thomas Demmer (demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De) wrote:

: e:/bin/touch.exe hhh
: make.exe: ***[hhh] Error -1

What does touch.exe return on success? What make is telling you here is
that touch.exe returned the value -1. Make interprets a non-zero return
value as an error. If -1 indicates success in this case, you could write a
wrapper which calls make.exe and remaps the return value to 0.

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George Foot

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