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Re: Universal Build System for C

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 9:34:03 AM UTC-3, Thiago Adams wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> "
>>   if (system("cl " 
>>        SOURCE_FILES   
>>        " -o output_file.exe") != 0) 
>>  {
>>     exit(1); 
>>   }
>> "
>>
>>
>> I little update:
>> When I wrote the script using "system"  I didn't know that system on linux 
>> does not return the exit code of the application it executes.
>
> This is not really a C question.  What system will report is very much
> determined by the implementation.
>
> If all goes well (there is a non-null argument and a shell that can be
> executed) then it returns the exit status of the shell.  That's the exit
> status of the last comment the shell ran.
>
> Why is this not good enough?

On POSIX systems, system() returns an int value from which the shell's
exit status can be extracted.  For example, /bin/false does the
equivalent of exit(1), but system("/bin/false") will (very probably)
return 256, not 1.

[...]

> I think you should consider posting in comp.unix.programmer if you want
> to unravel all the details of what system might return.

Agreed.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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