RE: make

[Wong, Danny H.]

Joost,
        Thanks for the link. I will check it out. Right now, I have an
issue when performing a "CD" command in a for loop. When there is no
directory ( say qatest ), the loops goes back to the very top of the
parent directory and keeps building (looping endlessly) until the
machine runs out of memory! I want to perform a check if the CD failed,
then ignore it and go onto the next one or failed the whole build and
exit. I was hoping there is something like the if test statement below I
used to check if the file built or not.

build:
        $(QUIET) for sd in $(SUBDIRS); do ( $(CD) "$$sd";       \
        \
        $(ECHO) "***** Building DEBUG version of $$sd lib *****";
$(MAKE) clean; \
        $(MAKE) PTV_BUILD=$(DBG_BUILD) $(DBG_TARGET); \
        if test -f "$$sd".ptv; then $(CP) "$$sd".ptv $(DBG_TARGET)dir;
fi; \
        \
        $(MAKE) clean; $(ECHO) "***** Building PRODUCTION version of
$$sd lib *****"; \
        $(MAKE) PTV_BUILD=$(PRD_BUILD) $(PRD_TARGET); \
        if test -f "$$sd".ptv; then $(CP) "$$sd".ptv $(PRD_TARGET)dir;
fi;); done 


Thanks 
Danny Wong 
SCM Engineer 


-----Original Message-----
From: Leeuwesteijn,Joost [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:19 PM
To: Wong, Danny H.
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: make

>   dw> I was wondering if there when using Cygnus "make". Is there a
>   dw> MAKESTATUS Marco to check the previous command exit status?
> No, there is not.
>
> I'm not at all sure how you intend to use such a thing... I don't see 
> very many, if any, ways to use it.

Perhaps the same reason I posted a question on how to handle non-zero
exit codes without using '-' (IGNORE_ERROR) in front of a command. My
compiler also returns a non-zero exit code in case of (just) warnings.
Danny, you might want want to check that post. Subject = "Ignore error",
posted by me.
Hang on, this one:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2006-05/msg00007.html

--
Joost Leeuwesteijn


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