merlyn's answer was dead on, for some reason it earlier it wasn't returning an error code, now with a minor tweak to merlyn's code I was able to get it working exactly like I wanted. THANKS A MILLION! This is a best place on the net for anything perl. I will be donating some $$$....
my code for completeness:
open MAKE, "make -f <params> 2>&1 |" or die;
open (LOGFILE, ">>build.log") or die;
while (<MAKE>) { print LOGFILE $_; print }
close MAKE; # to get $?
my $exit = $? >> 8;
close LOGFILE;
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