Re: Make error code list

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jim Julian wrote:

> When an error causes make to stop, there is no table of code numbers
> and explanations available to help determine the problem.

Sorry, I don't understand: what code numbers?  GNU Make prints a plain 
text message in English (or in another language, if it was built with NLS 
and you have the message catalogs installed).  It does not report any 
code numbers for errors, IIRC.

So please show us the exact text of the error message(s) that confused 
you.  Thanks.

> I went through the
> make.info files and found reference to only "common errors".

AFAIK, the Make manual describes most of the error messages, at least in 
the latest versions.  What version of Make do you have?  What does Make 
say if you invoke it with "make --version"?

>      While I'm writing, is there a simple way to create a log file? DOS pipes
> don't work with gcc and Delorie's REDIR  has little documentation and
> is to hard to figure out.

DOS pipes do work, but GCC prints its error messages to the stderr 
stream, and some Windows shells won't let you redirect stderr.  If you 
can use cmd.exe as your shell (default on NT, W2K and XP), you can 
redirect stderr.

To do that with `redir', use the "-e file" command-line option; it 
redirects stderr to the named file.