Re: how to exit the parent_make immediately when get an error in submake

[Stephan Beal]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Philip Guenther <address@hidden> wrote:
> By default, if a command run for a rule fails, make fails the rule and
> exits.  If that's not happening, it's because the rule definitions in
> the 'parent' makefile are throwing away or ignoring the status of the
> recursive make calls.

It might also be that the OP is doing a parallel build, in which case
one (or more) of the processes can continue to run for a while after
one child errors out.

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