Kindlegen errorlevel/exit code listing?

[ATimson]

I'm writing a tool to automate calling Kindlegen in batch fashion. I'm seeing an ExitCode of 1 even though it succeeded (albeit with warnings). My understanding is that the normal rules on DOS/Windows are that any exit code/errorlevel > 0 should be an error.

Does anybody have a list of the non-standard exit codes used by kindlegen, so I can handle them appropriately?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by ATimson

I'm writing a tool to automate calling Kindlegen in batch fashion. I'm seeing an ExitCode of 1 even though it succeeded (albeit with warnings). My understanding is that the normal rules on DOS/Windows are that any exit code/errorlevel > 0 should be an error.

Does anybody have a list of the non-standard exit codes used by kindlegen, so I can handle them appropriately?

Wrong forum.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by knc1

Wrong forum.

Maybe not in this case.

IIRC, KindleGen returns the following error level numbers:

0 = Info(prcgen):I1036: Mobi file built successfully

1 = Info(prcgen):I1037: Mobi file built with WARNINGS!

2 = Info(prcgen):I1038: MOBI file could not be generated because of errors!

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Maybe not in this case.

IIRC, KindleGen returns the following error level numbers:

0 = Info(prcgen):I1036: Mobi file built successfully

1 = Info(prcgen):I1037: Mobi file built with WARNINGS!

2 = Info(prcgen):I1038: MOBI file could not be generated because of errors!

I see the "Mobi file built with WARNINGS!" occasionally when using Mobipocket Creator, and it usually means either an error with the metadata or the cover. I don't know how this would correspond with the error in Kindlegen, but hopefully it will be of some help?

Shari

[ATimson]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

IIRC, KindleGen returns the following error level numbers:

0 = Info(prcgen):I1036: Mobi file built successfully

1 = Info(prcgen):I1037: Mobi file built with WARNINGS!

2 = Info(prcgen):I1038: MOBI file could not be generated because of errors!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by shalym

I see the "Mobi file built with WARNINGS!" occasionally when using Mobipocket Creator, and it usually means either an error with the metadata or the cover. I don't know how this would correspond with the error in Kindlegen, but hopefully it will be of some help?

I've yet to have the "warnings" result in a broken book that I've noticed - I think the typical ones that I see are for either fonts or CSS that Kindlegen doesn't like. But it's able to ignore them and produce a usable book anyways. So for my purposes I'm happy to ignore those (and treat it as a success) - it's only the true errors that I'm worried about right now!

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by knc1

Wrong forum.

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Maybe not in this case.

I am pretty sure this belongs in the Kindle Formats subforum, since it is about a tool used to generate Kindle Format ebooks, and doesn't really have anything to do with the Kindle ereader device, or especially hacking on the Kindle E-Ink ereaders.

Moved.

[dgatwood]

Originally Posted by ATimson

I've yet to have the "warnings" result in a broken book that I've noticed - I think the typical ones that I see are for either fonts or CSS that Kindlegen doesn't like. But it's able to ignore them and produce a usable book anyways. So for my purposes I'm happy to ignore those (and treat it as a success) - it's only the true errors that I'm worried about right now!

Likewise. The annoying part is that this behavior changed in a Kindlegen update a couple of years ago, and warnings that used to be ignored, resulting in a zero exit code, now result in kindlegen returning 1, thus requiring Makefile changes. I forget when that happened—maybe between 1.x and 2.x.

There's also no real notion of severity for warnings, nor the ability to ignore specific types of warnings that aren't really important, making the separate exit status for warnings much less useful than it otherwise would be.