> The -e flag is only useful because the author likes .ONESHELL mode Not really. The most common class of bugs I see in makefiles is something like this: fo

> The -e flag is only useful because the author likes .ONESHELL mode Not really. The most common class of bugs I see in makefiles is something like this: for x in foo bar baz; do frobnicate $x; done This ignores errors from frobnicate, unless you set -e.