Re: Make doesn't bail on compile errors

[Michael L Brown]

"Philip Guenther" <address@hidden> wrote on 03/23/2007 04:02:42 PM:

> Michael L Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
> >What does it take to get make to report back an exit error status all 
the
> >way back to the script that called make, so that the compilation 
process
> >is stopped?
> 
> A correct makefile.  The makefile which is continuing instead of
> stopping has an incorrectly written set of commands that execute
> multiple recursive makes without checking all their exit statuses.

The makefile has to do the checking and stop?  Oh how horrible.  With 
Sun/Solaris make the program saw the error and bail all compiling at that 
point and issued an error when exiting, which the script that called the 
make the caught and bailed.

Doesn't that seem like overkill to have the makefile do the checking? That 
makes the makefile lots larger, when the make program itself should see 
the error and back all the way out.

Now to figure out how to do that.

Thanks for the response.

MB
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