Capture makefile errors in shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I have a bash script which calls a few "make". I would like to know whether the makefile failed with any errors. How do I do that in the script?

Thanks,
S

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make > log 2>&1
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "Build failed"
   cat log
fi
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The above explained if you're new, "Run make and redirect both the errors and the standard output to 'log'. If the exit status of make '$?' is not equal to 0 ( -ne 0 where exit status 0 means it ran successfully) then say "Build failed" and show log file. Not that you needed it but someone else reading it may. :slight_smile: