Subject: Re: make: adding .KILL ?
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/01/2006 20:48:40
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:41:57PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> 
> Those changes work nicely btw, but there is still the issue that a job
> with _long_ running sub-jobs, won't notice the failure in the other branch
> until its sub-jobs finish.  I see this in part of my build at work where
> a big chunk of the tree is built using gmake.  All the bmake jobs stop
> immediately one of them fails, but the gmake bit chugs on and on...

So don't use gmake :-)

	David

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