Re: ignore errors on specific command

[John Calcote]

On 3/31/2010 11:05 AM, David Boyce wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:36 PM, John Calcote<address@hidden>  wrote:
>    
> > On 3/31/2010 9:59 AM, David Boyce wrote:
> >      
> > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM, John Calcote<address@hidden>
> > >   wrote:
> > >
> > >        
> > > > How about this:
> > > >
> > > > all: c1 c2 c3
> > > >
> > > > c1:
> > > >         cmd1
> > > >
> > > > c2:
> > > >         -cmd2
> > > >
> > > > c3:
> > > >         cmd3
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > This would work but would also require:
> > >
> > > .PHONY: c1 c2 c3
> > > .NOTPARALLEL:
> > >
> > > and is generally less useful than the previous solution. The ordering
> > > is also unlear to a non-make-expert.
> > >
> > >        
> > Something else that occurred to me after I hit "send" is that parallel make
> > would have a problem with my suggestion too. When not using -j the order is
> > as specified in the list of dependencies, but with -j, dependencies that are
> > not related to each other are considered parallelizable.
> >      
> Yes, that's where the .NOTPARALLEL comes in.
>    

I know - I missed that also until right after I hit "send". :) Sorry.