From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22466 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1999 08:22:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Aug 1999 08:22:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 19802 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 1999 08:22:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7339 Received: (qmail 19795 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1999 08:22:50 -0000 Message-Id: <9908020751.AA41377@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Couldn't Build 3.1.6 on Nextstep 3.3 m68k System In-Reply-To: "Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com"'s message of "Sun, 01 Aug 1999 23:52:17 DFT." <19990801235217.J13052@Happy-Man.com> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:51:45 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com wrote: > makeinfo ./zsh.texi; exit 0 > Making info file `zsh.info' from `./zsh.texi'. > ./zsh.texi:19: Unknown info command `dircategory'. > ./zsh.texi:20: Unknown info command `direntry'. > ./zsh.texi:23: Bad argument to `end', `direntry', using `ifinfo'. > ./zsh.texi:23: Unmatched `@end'. > *** Exit 2 > *** `zsh.info' removed > Stop. > *** Exit 1 > > If there is anything after that info step, > I wonder if it should fail more gracefully, > since even FSF's efforts haven't gotten me > to read info files very often. ...and the info files aren't installed by default, either. But that's presumably the reason why the `exit 0' was added. Why is it being interpreted as `exit 2'? Is make working too hard and intercepting the intermediate exit status? Should that be `makeinfo ./zsh.texi || exit 0'? -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy