On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:58:10PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:31 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually, I guess we do not need to save $? at all, since we have only a > > single process to care about. So even simpler: > > > > spatch ... 2>$@+ 2>$@.log || > > { > > cat $@.log > > exit 1 > > } > > # if we get here, we were successful > > mv $@+ $@ ;# etc > > > > would work. That's missing all the Makefile=required backslashes and > > semicolons, of course. ;) > > > > I opted to drop to just save the return, immediately after calling. > It's a bit less code change, and I think the result is as clear as the > above would be. This way we do drop the subshell, not that it matters > much in the end... Yeah. To be clear, I'm fine with any of the versions discussed in this thread. Thanks for working on this! -Peff