Roland Illig wrote:
> make programs terminating after "echo foo":
>   - Solaris 9, /usr/xpg4/bin/make
>   - bmake-3.1.12 20050603
>   - netbsd-20040210
>   - IRIX 6.5:1289570120
> 
> make programs continuing:
>   - GNU make
>   - netbsd-20050327
>   - netbsd-20041129

I fear I haven't chosen the right words, once again. What I really 
wanted to say is:

When executing a command like "false; echo foo", there are some versions 
of NetBSD's make(1) that would execute the "echo foo", and some others 
(older ones) that wouldn't do that.

Until today, I had always assumed that the behavior of the "old" make(1) 
was the Right One, but after reading POSIX, it was clear that the new 
behavior is preferred. The following change has made the difference:

2004-05-07 08:12  sjg
         Remove use of sh -e when running in compat mode.
         Its not posix compliant and serves very little purpose.
         With this change compat and jobs modes are consistent wrt how
         they treat each line of a script.

The consequence of this change is that the _complete_ pkgsrc code must 
be audited for behavior that has changed with this change. The most 
prominent example is code like this:

         @cd ${WRKDIR}; ${MAKE_PROGRAM} build

This code has worked fine with the old make(1), even if the WRKDIR did 
not exist. Now it could fail, executing ${MAKE_PROGRAM} in the current 
directory instead of ${WRKDIR}.

There are (at least) two ways to fix this:

1.  Replace the semicolons with &&.

         @cd ${WRKDIR} && ${MAKE_PROGRAM} build

2.  Start each non-trivial shell command with "set -e".

         @set -e; cd ${WRKDIR}; ${MAKE_PROGRAM} build

To maintain consistency, we should decide about one of these two ways 
and implement it. Of course I will teach pkglint how to help us humans 
during the fixing phase, but we should first discuss a little.

Roland