Ewald, That easy...If you know. Thanks for the example and the help. Now lets see if I can modify the make file without upsetting the make god.
Thanks again. John Ertl -----Original Message----- From: Ewald Ertl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:40 AM To: Ertl, John Subject: Re: [Tutor] launching and monitor from make Hi John Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I have a very simple python program that reads one file and overwrites > anouther text file. This workes great from the command line and it has > error checking but just outputs messages and the like to the screen. > > The CM team here would like to have the script run each week as part of the > automated rebuilds. The suggestion was to make the execution of the scritp > part of the bigger programs make file. How would I handel errors when the > program is run from a makefile? I hate make so I have not done a lot of > playing with what make can do in this respect but can python get an error > message to make? I think your Python-Script is an executeable "Shell"-Script with "#!/usr/bin/env python ... " So you can just insert your script in the makefile When the exit-Code of the script is 0, than make assumes that everything is ok, otherwise an error occured. Here's a short example with "ls" Here the mkfile want's to list the file "hugo" which does not exist mkfile: all: ls -l hugo -------------- #gmake -f mkfile ls -l hugo hugo: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden gmake: *** [all] Error 2 Here the mkfile itself is listed with ls mkfile: all: ls -l mkfile ---------- #gmake -f mkfile ls -l mkfile -rw-rw-r-- 1 ewer entw 19 Okt 12 16:35 mkfile HTH Ewald Ertl _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor