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GUNJAN ARORA
GUNJAN ARORA

Reputation: 15

Is there a way to print message using makefile whenever any makefile command fails?

I was compiling a program using makefile and wanted to display a message to the user if there is any error in the program. I searched for this and found that the exit status is zero if make is successful else it is non-zero. How to use these values of exit status to accomplish the above task or is there any other way of doing so ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1149

Answers (1)

Mesar ali
Mesar ali

Reputation: 1898

You have to create a bash script and call make command in that, you can check result of each command(or which command you want to check if successful) and print a message using echo if it fails as

#!/bin/bash
cd <YOUR_DIRECTORY_CONTAINING_MAKEFILE>
make
if [ $? -ne "0" ]; then
 echo "Make failed"
 exit 1
fi
echo "make Successful"

$? holds result of last command.

Now, to make your program and see result, you have to run this bash script

Upvotes: 1

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