On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Philip Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default, if a command run for a rule fails, make fails the rule and > exits. If that's not happening, it's because the rule definitions in > the 'parent' makefile are throwing away or ignoring the status of the > recursive make calls.
It might also be that the OP is doing a parallel build, in which case one (or more) of the processes can continue to run for a while after one child errors out. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
