On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, THOMAS CUNY wrote:

> The makefile does not abort on missing programs (strings) or missing header 
> files.

You aren't the first person this week to report that make World
doesn't stop when it finds a problem (the other person was actually 
complaining that some things didn't get built until make install).

This is deliberate. make World takes long enough the run
that we usually go away and do something else.
We find it convenient that it builds everything that we can.
Then when we have fixed any problems, building and installing
the rest doesn't take another cup of coffee.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

_______________________________________________
XFree86 mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Reply via email to