On 2022-05-05 11:07, nikhil jain wrote: > Thanks Paul and Brian. > I understand Now it's not possible to find out if it was an incremental > build or a full build. > > What about the second question ? > > Before exiting make, I want to display the status of the build if it failed > or passed.. how do I do that ? > Does make store the exit code somewhere.
Make certainly has a failed termination status for a failed build. Find the places where it is either returning from main or calling exit, and work backwards. You could just wrap make with a script: #!/bin/sh make "$@" && printf "build failed\n" > Re-Iterating - I want to display the status of the build before make exits. Why is that important; is something else going to happen between that diagnostic and the actual termination of make, such that the diagnostic must precede that event? > I do not want the shell which called make to fetch the status. This is a > requirement in which I need to tell the user that your build was completed > successfully or had issues. But another program, such as a script, obtaining the termination status of make is quite reliable. CI systems all over the world rely on it daily. I've seen entire toolchains wrapped in scripts (i.e. /path/to/gcc being a shell script which figures out sysroot parameters and calls the real compiler) and it made no difference to the build.
