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Top Forums Programming Make: Bad Substitution Post 302523319 by sidorenko on Wednesday 18th of May 2011 11:40:30 AM
Old 05-18-2011
I assume that there is a problem with the shell. `${PIPESTATUS[*]}' is actually an aray - a functionality which isn't supported by all the shells. So it might work in one shell, but don't work in others. Here is a proof:
Code:
sidorenko@sidorenko>
>echo $0
bash

sidorenko@sidorenko>
>echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}
0

sidorenko@sidorenko>
>/bin/sh -c 'echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]}'
sh: Syntax error: Bad substitution

you can reset the shell in your Makefile by putting:
Code:
SHELL:=/bin/bash

if you are using GNU Make.

PS: My guru has also developed a means for checking exit status of pipes which is portable to all the shells and all the Unix-platform. If you are interested you might have a look at `http://sf.net/projects/pipestatus'. That's a shell library by sourcing which you could get access to several highly portable shell functions for handling pipes, like `runpipe', `checkpipe' etc.

Last edited by sidorenko; 05-18-2011 at 07:02 PM.. Reason: more detailed description of pipestatus added
 

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clmake(1)						      General Commands Manual							 clmake(1)

NAME
clmake - color wrapper for make(1) and less(1) SYNOPSIS
clmake [ -f makefile ] [ option ] ... target ... DESCRIPTION
clmake acts as a wrapper around make(1) to ease reading the output by colorizing it. It also pipes the output to the less(1) text pager. OPTIONS
clmake uses the same command line options as make(1). USAGE
To change a makefile to use clmake, you may change the path at the top which normally reads #!/usr/bin/make to #!/usr/bin/clmake. Alternately, you may type clmake whenever you would normally type make when compiling programs. AUTHORS
Bjarni R. Einarsson is the author of clmake. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. This manual page was written by Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
make(1), colormake(1), less(1) July 2nd, 2001 clmake(1)
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