Month: May 2008

The build system for SQLEditor has lots of steps, from building each of the component frameworks, compiling the application, assembling the bundle, creating a disk image and then uploading everything to the server. (Plus things like version histories and read me files).To reduce errors I have several aggregate targets and a collection of scripts, but I was puzzled how to produce those little note entries that OCUnit generates when it’s running unit tests. There were several notes I wanted to make but I couldn’t figure it out.

However it occurred to me one day to inspect the souce of RunTargetTests and the answer was of course right there in the source.

<filename>:<line>: note: <message>

gives you a note.

<filename>:<line>: <message>

gives you a warning.

where

<filename>

is the name of the file you want the message to appear from

<line>

is the line number in that file

<message>

is the message you want to display

In the note form the word ‘note’ is a constant. Don’t replace it with anything.

As an alternative you put in use an empty filename and 0 for the line if you’re not interested in these details.

Example

@echo ":0: note: disk image creation complete"

Will display the message “disk image creation complete” as a note in the build window.