On 11/02/2008, David Paleino wrote: > This seems to me more hackish than it should; is there a cleaner way > to do it (maybe I'm just complicating myself and don't see The Easy > Way [1])? You could have a look at how cdbs does it, which might help. > [1] I know that using "[ ! test ] || ..." is pretty awkward, but it > didn't work with "[ test ] &&". Maybe "&&" should be escaped > somehow? I don't really know. That's simple, compare: [ foo ] && bar [ ! foo ] || bar If foo, then bar, and success. If not foo, then not bar, and failure. Here is your problem. The foo/bar relationship is the same, but not the return code, which is problematic in a Makefile, since it introduces a failure, thus make stops (see lintian about ignoring the errors in the clean target). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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