From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:05:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * autoupdate.in: Preserve exit status of the failed command when
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* autoupdate.in: Preserve exit status of the failed command when
die() follows system() by dividing $! by 256.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 282c74516..bdbbf0fee 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-02-26  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
+
+	* autoupdate.in: Preserve exit status of the failed command when
+	die() follows system() by dividing $! by 256.
+
 2001-02-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
 	* acgeneral.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, AH_TEMPLATE): New, use AS_ESCAPE, not
diff --git a/autoupdate.in b/autoupdate.in
index c136347b9..867834b95 100644
--- a/autoupdate.in
+++ b/autoupdate.in
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ EOF
        if $verbose;
     if (system ("$m4 $tmp/input.m4 >$tmp/updated"))
        {
-	 # FIXME: This guy is supposed to exit with a proper
-	 # exit status, but it does not.  Help is needed.
+	 # Exit status of system() is in the upper byte.
+	 $! >>= 8;
 	 die "$me: cannot update \`$filename'\n";
        };
 
diff --git a/autoupdate.sh b/autoupdate.sh
index c136347b9..867834b95 100644
--- a/autoupdate.sh
+++ b/autoupdate.sh
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ EOF
        if $verbose;
     if (system ("$m4 $tmp/input.m4 >$tmp/updated"))
        {
-	 # FIXME: This guy is supposed to exit with a proper
-	 # exit status, but it does not.  Help is needed.
+	 # Exit status of system() is in the upper byte.
+	 $! >>= 8;
 	 die "$me: cannot update \`$filename'\n";
        };
 
diff --git a/bin/autoupdate.in b/bin/autoupdate.in
index c136347b9..867834b95 100644
--- a/bin/autoupdate.in
+++ b/bin/autoupdate.in
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ EOF
        if $verbose;
     if (system ("$m4 $tmp/input.m4 >$tmp/updated"))
        {
-	 # FIXME: This guy is supposed to exit with a proper
-	 # exit status, but it does not.  Help is needed.
+	 # Exit status of system() is in the upper byte.
+	 $! >>= 8;
 	 die "$me: cannot update \`$filename'\n";
        };