make -k not working

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Mar 29 21:30:10 CEST 2006


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:01, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
> >When a compilation error prevents some library A from building then any
> >library B that depends on (links to) library A will not attempt to
> >build.  Technically library B's object files could be built but library
> >B could still not be linked under "make -k".
>
> This is exactly what I want. It really isn't a problem when you have a
> compile farm, but when you don't, you can launch a make -k build at
> night, go to bed and in the next morning you fix what failed to build.
> Hopefully, it will be quick to fix and you'd only need to link what came
> afterwards the build.

So if I understood correctly, just use make -i ?

cmake generates makefiles which do more dependency checking than we had with 
autotools AFAICT, and that's actually a good thing.

Bye
Alex
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