On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> If there is an error (the exit status is nonzero), `make' gives up on
>> the current rule, and perhaps on all rules."
>> Wouter, you NEED to RTM, it's all there !
>
> Probably, but you might RTFQ (read the fucking question) too :)
>
> I haven't (recently) read the manual all over, but I did search for
> obvious command names or constructs like fail, exit, fence, etc.
>
> I am *not inside a rule*. I don't have a rule for this, nor do I have an
> obvious choice for a command that would have the dirty task of failing.
> I am evaluating if's, to check whether the user has given a correct set
> of macro definitions. I'd like to give him an appropriate error message
> before make starts execution any rules that could cause other error
> messages.
>
> Or is this something that should definitely not be done in make?

Did you receive the sample makefile I sent you ?

Peter
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