Re^2: Capture the make status

well then i am doing something else wrong because when i induce an error my system returns 0 as if everything is ok...

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Re^3: Capture the make status by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 26, 2013 at 13:24 UTC
Aaaah - sorry! Now I realize your command line, and where that behaviour stems from. You are not passing a single command to `system()` but a string containing "`;`" which will be interpreted by the shell instead of directly started. You get back the exit status of the shell, which (likely) is the exit status of the last command run, which is `cd ..`. I recommend you do the `chdir` in Perl and run only `make ...` directly via `system()`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Capture the make status
by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 26, 2013 at 13:24 UTC

Aaaah - sorry! Now I realize your command line, and where that behaviour stems from.

You are not passing a single command to system() but a string containing ";" which will be interpreted by the shell instead of directly started. You get back the exit status of the shell, which (likely) is the exit status of the last command run, which is cd ...

I recommend you do the chdir in Perl and run only make ... directly via system().

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