Re: install -d sometimes fails

[Bob Proulx]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>   (or at least it shouldn't stop the "make"-process).
> 
> If you don't like that it stops the make processes, you can use the -k
> option to make.  make stops for any program that returns a return
> value >0; and any sane program that fails to work returns a value >0.

Huh, what, huh?  The -k option says to make *other* targets after an
error.  It won't continue in spite of errors.  So if there are no
other targets then 'make -k' won't have any non-dependent targets to
continue processing.

In the case of a program with many source files this will get all of
the source files compiled since the files are all independent.  But at
install time that I don't think that is too common.  Usually there is
a 'for' loop which will install files to be installed sequentially
instead.

Bob