newb question about scrolling in bash$

[unclepauly]

hi,

im using bash to compile my c++ app.

when i call make, i get far too many errors to see them all. so i can only see the screen's worth of errors - all the errors at the beggining have scrolled off the screen.

is there a command that i can call with make, so it will give me an error at a time, or any way of scrolling 'up' the screen so i can see the first few errors? or can i output the errors to a text file and inspect the contents there?

any help much appreciated.

[edit]
ok i found shift+pg up/down.

but i cant see ALL the errors. it stops after a bit. any other/better way?
[/edit]

[ibanex22]

which terminal emulator are you using? i know in the gnome-terminal (and probably all emulators) profiles you can specify how many lines you want it to scroll back to. the default is pretty low.

[unclepauly]

actually i am using the linux/ps2 kit at uni. im using bash$, not in a windows environment though, just plain old command prompt.

what i did was call make 2>logfile.txt. this redirects the compiler errors to a txt file and then i just shift+page up/down in the txt file.

cheers!

[ibanex22]

gottcha, good thinkin.