From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-12-26T08:39:32+09:00
Subject: Re: windows bat file help needed for rubygems

On 12/25/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> How do I get a windows .bat file to return a proper exit code?
>
> RubyGems build stubs that look something like this:
>
> "c:\ruby\bin\ruby" -x "%~f0" %*
> goto endofruby
> #!/bin/ruby
> abort 'boom'
> __END__
> :endofruby
>
> But if I run this:
>
> ruby -e "system 'stub.bat'; p $?"
>
> I get the wrong exit code (0 instead of 1).
>
> If I can get the right exit code then failure to build rake
> extensions will fail installs properly in Rubygems.
>

What do you get when you put:
exit %ERRORLEVEL%
under the :endofruby label?

From my quick test, the ruby interpreter returns a proper code, and
the command shell sets the ERRORLEVEL variable correctly.