In article <20031212223212.GB17192@mewburn.net>,
Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:53:24PM -0600, James Chacon wrote:
>  | > 
>  | > Make -j is simply broken (in yet another way) - just avoid it.
>  |
>  | Actually I can't find other ways it's not working correctly (as long
>  | as proper analysis of your Makefiles has been done and .WAIT's added
>  | appropriately).
>  |
>  | This is fixed via adding '|| exit $?' as Ben suggested so I'll
>  | probably start reviewing Makefiles for this shortly. In addition
>  | the man page for make needs a much clearer explanation of the
>  | implications of -j and command execution (since non-compat mode
>  | is different than traditional make in this respect with all the
>  | commands flowing through 1 shell instance).
>
>Why can't this be fixed by using ``|| exit $?\n'' instead of ``\n'' as
>the separator for the merged input fed to sh -e when using make -j ?

I even suggested to use " &&\n"

christos