Re: Universal Build System for C

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Universal Build System for C
Date	2021-11-23 01:00 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 5:39:47 PM UTC-3, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Thiago Adams <thiago...@gmail.com> writes: 
>> 
>> > On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 9:34:03 AM UTC-3, Thiago Adams wrote: 
>> > 
>> > [...] 
>> > " 
>> > if (system("cl " 
>> > SOURCE_FILES 
>> > " -o output_file.exe") != 0) 
>> > { 
>> > exit(1); 
>> > } 
>> > " 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I little update: 
>> > When I wrote the script using "system" I didn't know that system on linux 
>> > does not return the exit code of the application it executes.
>> This is not really a C question. What system will report is very much 
>> determined by the implementation. 
>> 
>> If all goes well (there is a non-null argument and a shell that can be 
>> executed) then it returns the exit status of the shell. That's the exit 
>> status of the last comment the shell ran. 
>> 
>> Why is this not good enough?
>
> The objective is to know if the compilation failed or not. I am not sure
> if gcc reports fails. ( I am checking )

Yes it does.  I think you'll find that if you get 0 from system, the
compile worked.

-- 
Ben.

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