From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:13:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix the exit code of MSVC build scripts on cygwin Message-ID: <81b0412b0910081313x31f72916p6fddd1a23df154df@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ACE064B.5020909@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 17:33, Ramsay Jones wrote: > diff --git a/compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl b/compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl > index 0ffd59f..26aec61 100644 > --- a/compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl > +++ b/compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl > @@ -45,4 +45,6 @@ if ($is_linking) { >        push(@args, @cflags); >  } >  #printf("**** @args\n"); > -exit system(@args); > +system(@args) == 0 > +       or exit 1; > +exit 0; exit(system(@args) != 0); Yours looks a little verbose...