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From: | "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com> |
To: | "'Shane'" <wolfpack AT inbox DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | RE: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash |
Date: | Sun, 6 Aug 2006 10:30:08 -0700 |
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Shane wrote: > I am writing a automated build script for my project that will be run > under cygwin. I will copy my updated source files to the build > directory and if there are updated files, the executables will be > built. To copy the source files, I had to use XCOPY since the > directory structure should be preserved in the destination directory > also. To copy only the updated files, I used the /D switch for XCOPY. > Now since I want to execute the source compile only if files in the > build directory have been updated, I have to use the exit codes of > XCOPY inside the script. There are standard software development tools that solve the problems you are facing -- CVS and Make: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Both are included in Cygwin. In the long run, you'd be better off investing in a basic to intermediate understanding of both rather than hacking together custom scripts to implement a subset of their functionality. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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