Control: reopen -1 On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 08:51:11PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > * Reinforce Makefiles error checking. Closes: #960294
I fear you only implemented a partial solution (based on my recommendation here). In my tests, failures still go unchecked. I think at least one issue is the linker rule in src/c_make.gen starting with line 359. You added "set -e" there. The command snippet has an outer if branch to select the linker (C vs C++) and an inner branch that removes the linked file on failure. Unfortunately, the failure path does not propagate the failure, because it is already captured in the if. Thus swallowing errors. I didn't see this when writing my bug report either. Beyond this, I strongly recommend implementing verbose build logs. The issue would have been much easier to spot with verbose build logs. Build logs have been a release goal[1]. Building verbosely is also recommended by the Debian policy section 4.9. Unfortunately, the build system at hand doesn't make this possible without patching. Helmut [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/VerboseBuildLogs
