Re: Logfiles from build

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/06/2011 2:11 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:32:22PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Percival"
> > <address@hidden>
> > > with my memory of recent discussions, I know to look in
> > > /home/gperciva/src/lilypond/build/out/lybook-db/snippet-names--25272072.log
> >
> > This kind of issue prompted my suggestion about gathering the
> > logfiles in a consistent place.
>
> Saying "look at one of the snippet-names--12345687.log files" is
> not the best solution.
>
> > I don't think it's likely that we'll be able to prompt people to
> > look there as a result of an error message from make,
>
> I do think it's likely.
>
> Have you tried my suggestion of using || ?  If it didn't work,
> then how precisely did it not work?
>
> - Graham


You suggest:
> Again, on the shell, it would be something like this:
>   make ...blah... || echo "build failed" && tail logfile
> but there might be a nicer way to do it.

but then when blah fails, make will not stop, since the return status 
from echo && tail is a success (assuming the log file exists). How would 
you return failure and force make to stop?

--
Julien