How can I highlight the warning and error lines in the make output?

Question

Sometimes, make\'s output fills the screen. It\'s a little bit hard to identify all the warning and error message lines. I know may shell color output can help Can anyone can he

Answer 1

On Mac, it worked by printing tput color codes around the error string.

First export tput color codes as below:

export red=`tput setaf 1`
export reset=`tput sgr0`

then, add a target to Makefile as below:

...
check-env:
ifndef ENV
    $(error ${red}ENV is undefined. Please export it using command [ export ENV=dev ]${reset})
endif
...

then, run it as make check-env

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