Subject: Re: make -j and failure modes
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/09/2003 16:15:01
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:55:26PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Tue Dec 09 2003 at 15:33:58 -0600, James Chacon wrote:
> > As folks have noticed (and PR#18573 documents), make -j doesn't stop correctly
> > on errors. At least in all cases.
> 
> see bin/17515

Even if that's fixed (which it should be) we'll still need to make a host tool
varient of sh (nbsh) for make to run stuff under since as I've found, other
environments don't all work the same.

I can very easily do both of those, but want to get some confirmation that
it's correct standards wise.

James