Re: returning program results

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:27 -0700, Ray dunn wrote:
> I am configuring an automated unit testing system running on WinXP.  I
> use GNU Make for building and running my unit tests.  Each of the (C
> ++) test programs will return a pass/fail value from main(), which
> normally can be picked up by operating system as the program return
> value.
> 
> How can I gain access to this value if I run the test program from a
> makefile?  

If a recipe that make invokes exits with an error code (non-0 exit),
then that rule will fail.  That means make itself will exit with an
error (non-0 exit).

So, just test if the make command failed the same way you would if the
command make runs fails.

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