From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 29 09:51:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA14052 for current-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA14047 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 09:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA05843 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:50:46 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA17302 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:50:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA29231 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:21:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606291621.SAA29231@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: remote make install To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:21:45 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Jun 29, 96 10:33:08 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Chuck Robey wrote: > > SYSEXITS(3) FreeBSD Programmer's Manual SYSEXITS(3) > Very good info. I looked at make's man page, but couldn't see any > reference to error returns. Is there any possiblity of changing the man > page to include a reference to sysexits(3) ? This manpage is relatively new still. Perhaps all utilites that adhere to sysexits(3) should xref it in their man pages, and the man page of make should make it clear that it's the exit status of the command. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)