Re: GMAKE 3.81 vs GMAKE 4.2

Thanks Paul and Brian.
I understand Now it's not possible to find out if it was an incremental
build or a full build.

What about the second question ?

Before exiting make, I want to display the status of the build if it failed
or passed.. how do I do that ?
Does make store the exit code somewhere.

Re-Iterating - I want to display the status of the build before make exits.
I do not want the shell which called make to fetch the status. This is a
requirement in which I need to tell the user that your build was completed
successfully or had issues.
Please provide some ideas on this.

thanks
Nikhil

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 10:46 PM Brian Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know if this will bounce, because the mail system I'm using
> changed from Notes to Outlook since the last time I tried this...
>
> It seems like the questions you're asking are:
> 1. What was used to make target 'X' of 5 May 2022?
> 2. How is that different from yesterday's build?
>
> In order to answer those questions, particularly after-the-fact, you would
> need some fairly fine-grained build auditing.
>
> I know of one (very expensive) proprietary SCM system with that capability
> (Disclaimer : it's sold by my employer). And it does so using a driver that
> monitors filesystem transactions in its special filesystem to do it. I
> don't know if there are any open source tools that will let you do that.
> There are also build "cache" tools (ccache?) that may give you at least
> SOME idea.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Help-make <[email protected]> On Behalf
> Of Paul Smith
> Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 12:54 PM
> To: nikhil jain <[email protected]>
> Cc: help-make <[email protected]>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: GMAKE 3.81 vs GMAKE 4.2
>
> On Thu, 2022-05-05 at 21:41 +0530, nikhil jain wrote:
> > Correct, but how do i know its a incremental or full ? any ENV is set
> > which says it is incremental or full ?
>
> There's no possible way to know.
>
> No make invocation will ever build every target in the makefile in any
> real-world makefile (consider targets like "clean", "test", "install",
> etc.)
>
> If you want to restrict it to say "is every prerequisite of target A that
> I could possibly build, rebuilt?  Or was one or more already up to date?"
> that would be possible to know, but only AFTER the entire build has
> completed obviously.  So, an environment variable is useless: it couldn't
> be set until make was just about to exit and once it exits of course all
> its environment variables are gone.
>
> Currently as far as I'm aware there's nothing in GNU make that tracks this
> information, so it's not even possible to print that information out.  That
> tracking would have to be added.
>
>