Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 02:09:23 -0400 (AST)
From: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: bug in djgpp's make
To: Tim Freeman <tim AT pi DOT la DOT tce DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Is this a bug?  Using other make's, it seems to me that what make does is 
just spew out the appropriate commands to the command processor (shell in 
unix), which appear as though you had typed them.  How make should 
repond to errors or return codes from the command processor, I'm not 
sure, but if, for example, you are doing a make with Turbo C and the 
compiler dies with an error (and let's assume you have set it to 
compile only, so a command in your make file does the linking) the linker 
will then be invoked and produce _it's_ error message because the object 
file isn't present (or worse, and old version of the .obj _is_ present 
and the linker doesn't complain and you were getting a coffee and don't 
know the compile is bogus!).  In short, I haven't tried this lately with 
another make but I am not sure it is a bug, just a gotcha!
Bill Davidson
bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com