Re: Shell returned 1 - always

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 02:27:00AM -0700, sfx2k wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I switched from Windows XP to Windows 7.
>
> The first thing I noticed was, that the Taglist-Plugin does not work any longer.
> I always got an error message that the tags could not be created.
> I found out, that the call of the system()-function always returns 1 - although there where no errors!
>
> The second thing is, that, when compiling a project, the call of make always returns 'shell returned 1' - but there were no errors.
>
> Any ideas?

I've noticed that Windows programs are really loose with their return
codes. If you can run those commands from a cmd.exe shell yourself,
try echoing %ERRORLEVEL% right after that command completes.

I've found that some Windows commands don't update %ERRORLEVEL%,
making it appear to return the same status as the previous command.

I've also encountered some commands which *always* appear to fail
("help" being the only example that comes to mind).

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Erik Falor
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