Re: [PATCH]: Continuing touching files after an error

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 16:04 +0200, Atte Peltomäki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> here's a small fix for a corner case I happened to run into.
> 
> Scenario:
> 
>  Run 'make -t' on an incomplete tree, where a dependency file and 
>  the subdirectory it should be in, are completely missing. Make fails
>  and exits.
> 
> Problem:
> 
>  Run 'make -t -k' to have make continue despite missing dependency.
>  Doesn't work, it still exits early.

Hi Atte.  I don't think this patch is right.  It doesn't seem proper to
me to skip things like notice_finished_file() etc. when -k is provided.

I couldn't quite reproduce the error situation you described.  Can you
provide me with a simple makefile that shows the problem?

Thanks!

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