Subject: Re: make -j and failure modes
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/13/2003 00:08:02
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:29:12 -0600, James Chacon writes:
>I did a build over the last day of all arch/machine combos and it's a lot
>cleaner regardless of how this works out in the end.

Cool - thanks for working on this.

>> >I even suggested to use " &&\n"
>> 
>> I like this even better.
>
>This one presents a harder problem in correcting echo'ing commands and
>seeing which one caused the error.

Not sure I follow, can you elaborate?

>> If we do the '&&\n', can we get rid of -e?  Its pretty useless anyway.
>
>Parsing the output is the problem here.

My "can we get rid of -e?" holds for the || exit $? too ;-)

--sjg