Re: [OctDev] new release?

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:27:07PM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> Will it cause problems for you if the build succeeds even
> when it fails?  That is, if I put in the -k business so that
> people can ignore things that don't build on their architecture
> unless they really need them, it won't generate an exit
> status on Debian builds.

Well, I'd rather have it succeed in the first place for me. 

> On second thought, I can put in a make parameter such as:
> 	make STOP=1
> Use this if you want to build and stop at the first error.  If
> nobody disagrees, that's what I will do.  I'll skip the nice
> report of what doesn't build for now.

I think I can also make it fault tolerant at my level because debian/rules,
a makefile, can call 'make' as '-make' and even if your make failed, it
would continue.

But I think that would open a can of worms. We need to decide between you
and me what we think will build under Debian, and then just build it. On
i386 and all other ten or eleven arches, if possible.

Dirk

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