Hi Martin and list, I was hoping there would be a way for Make to continue or halt based on the presence of a file _and_ its respective exit status log - i.e. the file and the declaration that the file's good. Is this outside the scope of known Makes?
--Alex On May 14, 2013, at 18:35 , Martin d'Anjou <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexander, > > When you run make a second time in the same folder, it will continue based on > the presence of files, not based on their content. The response from Eric > Melski on stackoverflow is right: make sure the output file is created only > when the entire recipe has worked. > > Martin > > > On 13-05-14 03:30 PM, Alexander Nelson wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> This email is somewhat a cross-post of a Stack Overflow question: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16488581/looking-for-well-logged-make-output >> >> The gist is, I run workflows focused on single input files, logging stdout, >> stderr and shell exit status of each step. I think a natural way to >> express these workflows is with a Makefile. However, in the event of an >> error (which in my case is more frequently nothing of the program's fault - >> the power dies, a disk fills, menial stuff), I'd like Make to be able to >> resume a workflow based on the exit status of the intermediary target steps. >> >> That is, if the Make rules include target "target4", I'd like Make to >> interpret "target4.status.log" having the contents "0" or "0\n" as "Ok, >> target4 built." But if the log contained anything else, like "1\n" or >> "Started", Make would treat that as not-ok and halt. >> >> From the crickets except one person on Stack Overflow; the gmake man page; >> Wikipedia's make-like programs page; and writing a mess of Bash, Python and >> Make to do this before; I'm guessing this doesn't exist in any Make. >> However, I figure this list may provide a more authoritative answer. >> >> Has anybody seen something like what I'm asking about before? >> >> --Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-make mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make >
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