Date:         Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:36:43 -0800
Reply-To:     David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM>
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From:         David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: make and exit status codes
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dlewandowski@SOLUCIENT.COM wrote:
>
>I use SAS with the unix make utility.  For each project I have a
>makefile that describes the relationship between my data preparation,
>analysis and extract programs.   It's very effective.
>
>If you are familiar with make, it's obvious that I'm running all
>these SAS programs in batch mode.  One nice feature of make is that it
>stops processing whenever an executed program has a non-zero exit
>status.  In batch mode, SAS has an exit status of zero when the program
>finishes successfully and 2 when the program has an error.  But it has
>an exit status of 1 when the program has a warning and that's the
>crux of my problem.  Often I'm happy to ignore the SAS warnings and
>would like make to continue processing.  However, I always want make to
>stop processing whenever there is an error.
>
>I've thought of several work-arounds but I can't figure out how to
>implement any of them.
>1.  Use a SAS option to suppress warnings.  If this option exists, I
>can't find it.
>2.  Use a SAS option to change the exit status for warnings from 1 to
>zero.  If this option exists, I can't find it.
>3.  Get make to ignore an exit status of 1 but stop on an exit status
>of 2.
>4.  Instead of executing SAS directly, have make execute a shell script
>that somehow resets the SAS exit status to zero or 2.
>
>Any help on implementing any of these ideas or any new ideas is greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Dave

Let me suggest a stupid alternative.  Have you considered
fixing the SAS code so that you do not get WARNING messages
occurring?  They usually mean that there is a problem, or at least
that there *may* be a problem.  I would feel better about fixing
the code than finding a way to ignore the warnings.

HTH,
David
--
David L. Cassell
mathematical statistician
Design Pathways
3115 NW Norwood Pl.
Corvallis OR 97330

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