Re: Couldn't Build 3.1.6 on Nextstep 3.3 m68k System

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Irving_Wolfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> makeinfo ./zsh.texi; exit 0
> Making info file `zsh.info' from `./zsh.texi'.
> ./zsh.texi:19: Unknown info command `dircategory'.
> ./zsh.texi:20: Unknown info command `direntry'.
> ./zsh.texi:23: Bad argument to `end', `direntry', using `ifinfo'.
> ./zsh.texi:23: Unmatched `@end'.
> *** Exit 2
> *** `zsh.info' removed
> Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> 
> If there is anything after that info step,
> I wonder if it should fail more gracefully,
> since even FSF's efforts haven't gotten me
> to read info files very often.

...and the info files aren't installed by default, either.  But that's
presumably the reason why the `exit 0' was added.  Why is it being
interpreted as `exit 2'?  Is make working too hard and intercepting the
intermediate exit status?  Should that be `makeinfo ./zsh.texi || exit 0'?

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