Re: Capturing and converting makefile output

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Paul Power" <address@hidden> writes:

  pp> I've been a reasonably heavy user of gnu make over the Previous
  pp> few years and the one thing I would really like To see is a way to
  pp> capture the output from a makefile ( errors and standard
  pp> completion ) and convert it to a given format.

I'm not exactly sure what your goal is here--the format of error
messages emitted by GNU make is well-defined.  You can check the GNU
make manual chapter "Errors Generated by Make".

If you mean errors generated by tools that make invokes, then of course
there's nothing make can do about that.

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