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Is there A way I can Force a makefile to ignore errors? i believe it is using gcc.

i have a set of commands in the makefile that i want to run and each time the makefile gets to the point of this commands, it aborts because of the commands.

how can i get the makefile to keep running despite the errors it comes across as a result of my newly inputted commands?

thanks

Unfortunately you did not tell us which particular make you are using - gmake, make, nmake, etc.

The concept of a make is that it is error free, warning free or it is no good.
Remove your offending commands if the syntax is causing an error.

make -i ignores all errors
You can add a - (hyphen) as a prefix to a given command, this causes make to ignore the fact that it failed.
I think -i and the - are pretty standard.

But. If you have errors you did not have a good compile. IF the code runs correctly it is by accident.

thanks everybody.

this makefile is a shell script.

i understand your point about removing the offending commands but i have looked at the offending commands and their results and i have determined their results aren't harmful.

in the makefile, i have a set of "make installs" that runs in specific directories. the "make installs" works OK in most of the directories but doesn't in 1 or 2.

my questino is, how do i get the makefile to keep going regardless of if the make installs complete successfully or not.

and by the way, the makefile is using /usr/local/bin/ginstall (not sure if that helps) gcc

this is the command i'm running in the source directory:

fakeroot gmake clean all install buildpkg