[nhc-bugs] hmake stdout/stderr confusion
Malcolm Wallace
Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk
Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:02:03 +0100
> [I hope, this is the right place to report hmake problems.]
Yes.
> When hmake emits the message
>
> Stop - hmake dependency error.
>
> it does so to stdout. I think, it should go to stderr, as
> the current behaviour in combination with output redirection
> can be surprising.
Good point. Patch below.
Regards,
Malcolm
Index: script/hmake.inst
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/src/master/nhc/script/hmake.inst,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 hmake.inst
--- script/hmake.inst 2001/06/15 13:21:24 1.19
+++ script/hmake.inst 2001/09/26 09:42:34
@@ -234,6 +234,6 @@
rm $TMP/hmake$$
exit $CODE ;;
*) rm $TMP/hmake$$
- echo "Stop - hmake dependency error."
+ echo >&2 "Stop - hmake dependency error."
exit $CODE ;;
esac