Catching Make error

gkhattak · 02-19-2003, 12:36 PM

I have a target in my makefile that does a make in a bunch of directories. Even if the make finds an error it continues to the next directory since it is in a for loop. How can I catch an exit status of Make and stop it, or at least record the status and print it out after the loop is finished?

The loop looks like this....

all:
for d in $(DIRS) ; \
do \
( \
cd $$d; \
$(MAKE) $@; \
); \
done

Hko · 02-19-2003, 02:57 PM

In a shell script this will work. I didn't test in a make file.

Code:

if ! $(MAKE) $@; then exit 1; fi

gkhattak · 02-19-2003, 06:28 PM

that works, if I put an echo statement instead of exit, i see it fine...but it exits the make, but keeps going through the for loop still. How can i break out of that for loop I guess is my question.

Mik · 02-20-2003, 09:55 AM

You can get the return value of the last executed command from the $? variable. You could use that to break out of your loop.