hi,

William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> ...
> This also works in my yuqk fork, though I doubt whether it will work for
> official POV-Ray releases. Pretending the following is all on one line:
>
> yuqk boom.pov fatal_error_command="echo \"Scene: <%s>
> fatal_error_command. RC: <$?>\""
>
> It uses the fatal_error_command facility of POV-Ray itself. The output
> looks like:
>
> ==== [Parsing...] ==================================================
> File 'boom.pov' line 2:
> Parse Error:
> Parse halted by #error directive: Boom
> Fatal error in parser: Cannot parse input.
> Scene: <boom> fatal_error_command. RC: <0>
> Render failed
>
> However! The return code (RC) reported by the 'fatal command' is not for
> the current running POV-Ray executable, but for the command previously
> run from the terminal, which is currently running the POV-Ray executable.

can you use BE's "to file" idea ?  ie write the exit / status code as last line
when 'all_file=true', perhaps.


regards, jr.

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