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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:16:33 -0800
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 27 Feb 1997 15:03:48 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> Kyle Jones writes:
> 
> > William M. Perry writes:
> >> Soren Dayton writes:
> >> >would it be possible to check the return value of the make and do it
> >> >yourself?  That would be the nice solution...
> >> 
> >> This could get into recursion problems if there was a genuine problem
> >> with the build. :)
> 
> > Use a unique exit code.
> 
> Um, you can't right now.  The `fatal' routine is called to shut things
> down and it hard codes an `exit(1)'.
> 
> There are 69 places fatal is called.  Sounds like a lot of work to
> change it. :-(

	But don't you only need to change the exit value at a single
place?  Namely when it's modified PURESIZE.h and suggests that you
rebuild?


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