Re: problem

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Ashish Bajpai (DS/ESQ2)" <address@hidden> writes:

  ab> Can someone tell me the meaning of automatic variable $$? which is
  ab> used sometimes in makefile ?

This is not actually a question specific to the Windows port of GNU make
so might be better asked on address@hidden or similar.

  ab>   elif [ $$? -eq 2 ] ; then \

The construct "$$" escapes the dollar sign so that make won't think that
it introduces a make variable.  So really this isn't a make question at
all, it's a shell question: when you see "$$?" in the command script it
gets passed to the shell as "$?".

The shell variable $? is always set to the exit code of the
just-completed command, so the above test is checking whether the
previous command exited with an error code of 2.  In UNIX, all commands
that succeed exit with a result value of 0, and any non-0 value is
considered an error.

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