[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] buildtools: output build failure reason to stderr

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:24:00AM +0000, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> If build fails because of failed experimental check and stdout is
> redirected to /dev/null, it is absolutely unclear why build fails.
> 
> Fixes: a4bcd61de82d ("buildtools: add script to check experimental API exports")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
> ---
> v2:
>  - use <<- to keep indentation of the message
> 
>  buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh b/buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh
> index 7d21de3..5bc8cda 100755
> --- a/buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh
> +++ b/buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh
> @@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ do
>  	IN_EXP=$?
>  	if [ $IN_TEXT -eq 0 -a $IN_EXP -ne 0 ]
>  	then
> -		echo "$SYM is not flagged as experimental"
> -		echo "but is listed in version map"
> -		echo "Please add __rte_experimental to the definition of $SYM"
> +		cat >&2 <<- END_OF_MESSAGE
> +		$SYM is not flagged as experimental
> +		but is listed in version map
> +		Please add __rte_experimental to the definition of $SYM
> +		END_OF_MESSAGE
>  		exit 1
>  	fi
>  done
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>