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Re: [patch] parallel make bug with failing commands


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: [patch] parallel make bug with failing commands
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:48:55 -0400

%% Michael Matz <address@hidden> writes:

  mm> Ah, right, good idea.  Btw. funnily I can't reproduce the effect
  mm> of the deferred output on one of the machines even with your
  mm> makefile.  The child is left running, but the echo "ok done" is
  mm> missing, probably because the parent make is done, and hence can't
  mm> execute further commands of the list.

Exactly.

  mm> So to make it even more reproducable one should simply make the
  mm> sleep and the "echo" be one command, then it's guaranteed to be
  mm> form disturbing output in the prompt :) Ala:

Actually, my regression test relies on this not being printed.  The
regression tests essentially look only at the output of the program and
its exit code to determine if it worked properly or not.

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