Re: get external process's output *and* return value

[William.Ampeh]

Use
my $status = $?>>8


>From your code, I could not tell how yoy were running MAKE (you were only
processing items in the make file).
 So Assuming you were running "make -f my_makefile".

Then this should do it.

#!/opt/local/bin/perl
$foo=`make -f my_makefile`;   #you could replace line with system("make -f
my_makefile")
my $status = $?>>8;
print "\n\n fo status = $status\n\n";


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