capturing make's exit status

[Nolan Ring]

Hi,

OS is Solaris 5.9
make is 3.8.0

We have a large project whose code base consists of both java and native 
code.  We are using ant as our build tool - and calling make from ant. 
I want to capture the exit status when make encounters a problem, even 
if the problem is deep down in the directory structure that it's 
building.  What happens now is that my return status is usually 0 
because of the way I'm invoking make.  

Is there some way for me to capture the exit status from make at the 
time that it fails?  Or set a flag?  

My Makefile is pretty basic:

all: versionfile $(BUILDDIRS)
       @(for i in $(MAKEDIRS); do cd $$i; echo "Making in $$i" ;make -f 
Makefile.sun; cd ..; done)

Thanks much.