Re: Make doesn't bail on compile errors

[Philip Guenther]

Michael L Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
> What does it take to get make to report back an exit error status all the
> way back to the script that called make, so that the compilation process
> is stopped?

A correct makefile.  The makefile which is continuing instead of
stopping has an incorrectly written set of commands that execute
multiple recursive makes without checking all their exit statuses.


On 3/23/07, David L <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is it possible you're using the -k flag with make?

Nope.  If that was the issue, we would have seen make say that it was
continuing past the error, ala "*** Error code 1 (continuing)"


Philip Guenther