On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:35:26PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> ...
> Perhaps because it is quite easy to make one for yourself?
> 
> make <whatever> buildworld;echo "Buildworld is finished now!"
> 
> How to make a multi-line footer is left as an exercise :-)

However, the cited example doesn't indicate whether the execution was
successful or not.  An initial cut at an attempt to do that might be
something such as:

make <whatever> buildworld && \
  echo "Buildworld finished OK at `date`" || \
  echo "Buildworld errored out with status code $? at `date`

Peace,
david
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