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
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