How to mark a build unstable in Jenkins when running shell scripts

Question

In a project I\'m working on, we are using shell scripts to execute different tasks. Some are sh/bash scripts that run rsync, and some are PHP scripts. One of the PHP script

Answer 1

You can just call "exit 1", and the build will fail at that point and not continue. I wound up making a passthrough make function to handle it for me, and call safemake instead of make for building:

function safemake {
  make "$@"
  if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "ERROR: BUILD FAILED"
    exit 1
  else
    echo "BUILD SUCCEEDED"
  fi
}