Garrett, On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I really want is this: > > > > $ cat Makefile > > all: foo bar baz yadda > > > > foo bar yadda: > > > > baz: > > false > > $ gmake > > false > > gmake: *** [baz] Error 1 > > ^^^^ > > $ make all > > false > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /tmp. > > > > Otherwise diagnosing issues becomes a PITA with -j > 1 (with pmake I > > have to start using some serious grep'ing, and if I'm lucky I can find > > the source of error). If I get a few spare cycles I might just > > implement it and post a patch somewhere (the entering and leaving > > directory feature of gmake is really nice too, but it's less > > important.. unless you have the same target in multiple directories).. > > I've attached a patch that makes make do what I would like it to do; > there are some other items that require cleanup to achieve the `argv0' > prefixing that's available in gmake, but this is good enough for a > meaningful traceback when things fail. Pastebin available here, just > in case the mailing list eats my patch: http://pastebin.com/dFqcDRfv > > $ cat ~/Makefile > all: > cd $$HOME/foo; ${MAKE} $@ > $ cat ~/foo/Makefile > all: foo bar barf yadda > > foo bar yadda: > @true > > baz: > @false > > barf: baz > $ $PWD/make -j4 -f ~/Makefile all > cd $HOME/foo; /usr/src/usr.bin/make/make all > *** [baz] Error code 1 > 1 error > *** [all] Error code 2 > 1 error > $ > > If someone would please, PLEASE commit this.. I will give you beer, or > wine, or a copy of Skyrim, or a few months subscription to WoW, or > something else of value to you that we could negotiate :)... I'm quite > frankly tired of having to playing guessing games fishing through logs > trying to determine build errors on FreeBSD if and when they do occur > with pmake, and I'm sure that a number of developers and build/release > engineers out there are in the same boat as I am. > I hit the same problem regularly. The patch looks good to me as well. Max _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
