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Re: catching build problems


On Mar 31, 2000, "Lars J. Aas" <larsa@sim.no> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:30:49PM +0100, Lars J. Aas wrote:

> : MAKE := trap "cat $(top_srcdir)/troubleshooting" 1 2 15; $(MAKE) MAKE="$(MAKE)"

> Does anyone know if setting up a trap on make like described below
> will fail on some platform?

The trap is fine, but the `:=' syntax is far from portable.

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