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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB's return code wrong
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 07:46:23AM -0700, Edward Comer wrote:
> I wrote a shell script that causes pcb to export gerbers and I wanted to test for success/failure but I find that pcb returns 0 even upon failure.
>

This bugs me too. The problem is that pcb basically looks at
the -x parameter to check which exporter to use, hands off to
the exporter (through the do_export() function), and calls it
a day. When the exporter finishes, it returns 0.

If the exporter fails, it will abort early, but it has no way
to tell the main program that there was a problem.


The solution would be to change the HID interface so that do_export
returns an error code.


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