Re: parallel make and waiting for child process

[Martin d'Anjou]

> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 11:08 -0400, Martin d'Anjou wrote:
> > Is there a way to have make kill unfinished child processes (when a
> > child returns a non-zero exit code) and return immediately instead?
>
> No.  The idea is that if those other jobs are not depending on the one
> that died (and if they were they wouldn't be running already...) then
> why not let them finish, so that the next time you run "make" (after you
> fix the problem with the job that died) you can avoid re-running the
> other jobs.

I understand. It makes sense in the cases where you want to continue the 
build. In my case, I have a robot that runs builds sequentially as 
submitted by users. Each build is different and I start from scratch each 
time. The idea is to minimize time spent queueing for the robot, so 
aborting at the first error is highly desirable.

> > If not, where in the source code can I change that?
>
> You'll have to dig into job.c :-/.

I am probably not competent enough to do this myself...

Thanks for the info,
Martin