RE: build from CVS

[Vardhan Varma]

The only way to break make -k, is 'kill $$'

Assuming that make expands $$ to it's PID, does it ?
However if make is invoked recursively ??

another options is putting echo ^G^G^G, so that an audible
alarm is (usually) generated ......

--Vardhan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 19:22
> To: Richard Stallman
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: build from CVS
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> >     I think if you add "exit 1" to the commands run by 
> maybe_bootstrap, Make 
> >     will stop after printing that message.
> > 
> > I think that won't work if make is run with -k,
> > and normally that's what people do.
> 
> They do?  I never use "make -k" when I build the CVS version (because 
> then I could miss problems).
> 
> If the majority use "make -k", then I agree this is not a 
> good solution, 
> but if only a few people do that, especially if most of those who are 
> unexperienced with the CVS versions, then "exit 1" will do, I think.
> 
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