RE: GMAKE signal handling

[Bhatt, Milan C]

Thanks Paul.

Do you think it would be possible to make each signal name a special target
for a future release of gmake?

For example, I believe Ctrl-C is "SIGINT".  So you could have:

.SIGINT : 
        @ echo "Interrupt signal received"
        @ <commands to clean up launched sub jobs>
        @ echo "exiting"

I'm not sure how feasible this would be within some future make, but I think
it would make a good feature.

Milan

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:43 PM
To: Bhatt, Milan C
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: GMAKE signal handling


%% "Bhatt, Milan C" <address@hidden> writes:

  bmc> I know this may be a long shot, but has anyone found some way for
  bmc> GMAKE to handle signals?  Specifically, I would like to capture
  bmc> the Ctrl-C interrupt signal and have GMAKE execute some commands
  bmc> before exiting.

It's simple enough to do from within the code, but there's no way to do
it from within a makefile.

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