Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 09:39:17 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com, tim AT pi DOT la DOT tce DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: bug in djgpp's make 

> Neither bug nor gotcha.  Every reasonable make program calls
> compilers directly, not through COMMAND.COM (with spawnXXX()
> function call), precisely because this is the only way to get
> at its exit status.  GNU Make which comes with DJGPP is no
> exception.

Yes it is.  For cases where it CAN call the program directly, it does.
This is done within go32's system() handler, if not in libc itself.