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Asked: 2026-06-17T19:56:04+00:00

Using Xcodebuild directly from bash, how would one detect a failure? the exit code

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Using Xcodebuild directly from bash, how would one detect a failure? the exit code is always 0 regardless. I realize there’s an “FAILED” or “SUCCEEDED” textural output, but isn’t there a more elegant way?

Also, I sometimes use “make” (especially with my Qt based builds). Is there a way to detect make has failed from the build script?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe it depends on the version of Xcode or possibly how it fails. This is what I get when I check $? after some include files can’t be found:

    davidb@DavidBs-Mobile-Macintosh:~/Source/icanvas/iCanvas-project (release/icanvas-1.9 %) $ xcodebuild
...
/Users/davidb/Source/icanvas/iCanvas-project/iCanvas-target/iPhone/ConversationViewController.m:21:9: fatal error: 'CanvasKit/CKActionSheetWithBlocks.h' file not found
#import "CanvasKit/CKActionSheetWithBlocks.h"
        ^
1 error generated.
...
** BUILD FAILED **
...
(5 failures)
davidb@DavidBs-Mobile-Macintosh:~/Source/icanvas/iCanvas-project (release/icanvas-1.9 %) $ echo $?
65
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