[grudgingly keeping tech-kern and current-users both :-] Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes: > @@ -1084,6 +1084,9 @@ Usage: ${progname} [-EhnoPRrUuxy] [-a ar > Should not be used without expert knowledge of the build system. > -h Print this help message. > -j njob Run up to njob jobs in parallel; see make(1) -j. > + -k Continue processing after errors are encountered, but only on > + those targets that do not depend on the target whose creation > + caused the error. > -M obj Set obj root directory to obj; sets MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX. > Unsets MAKEOBJDIR. > -m mach Set MACHINE to mach. Some mach values are actually a few unrelated comments: I think it's pretty clear that if you don't pass -k, nothing will change. So people that don't like -k or think it's unsafe can just not pass it. It would be nice if invoking build.sh with -k resulted in two properties: if any subpart fails, getting a non-zero exit status from build.sh, and having that be clear from the end of the log. Currently 'make -k' in pkgsrc results in -k being passed to the WRKSRC make invocation, which results in a zero status, which results in a .build_done cookie, which is wrong. The full release build is a number of substeps. It makes sense to use -k for the main build of the system, after the tools build, to get the "find all problems" property you want. But it's not clear to me that it makes sense to build the main system if the tool build fails. And it's not clear that sets should be produced. Therefore, I wonder if passing -k to make should be limited to the main build, and the main build should be deemed to fail if there are any errors, so that there are no sets produced in that case.
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