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

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Thu Feb 1 14:49:19 CET 2018


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>
---
 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..7f5aa61 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 $SYM"
+		cat >&2 <<EOM
+$SYM is not flagged as experimental
+but is listed in version map
+Please add __rte_experimental to the definition of $SYM
+EOM
 		exit 1
 	fi
 done
-- 
2.7.4



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