[erlang-questions] [erlang-bugs] erl -make returns ok status after compilation error

[Dennis Novikov]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Maxim Treskin <zerthurd@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Make in erlang dose not handles errors in compilation.
>
> If some files in application broken, compilation with erlc returns 1,
> while erl -make returns 0 what indicates that compilation i
> successful.
> So, when we uses Makefile, where some targets should been compiled
> with erl -make, and when one target compilation is broken, make cannot
> catch this.


I had to use wrapper like this:

-module(mk).

-export([all/0]).

all() ->
    case make:all() of
        up_to_date ->
            erlang:halt(0);
        _ ->
            erlang:halt(1)
end.

erl -noinput -noshell -s mk all