From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 20 7: 7:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DCD152D0 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA13064; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:07:11 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda13062; Tue Jul 20 07:07:03 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id HAA65825; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907201407.HAA65825@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdI65815; Tue Jul 20 07:06:43 1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE X-Mailer: MH 6.8.4, Exmh 2.0.2 X-Sender: cschuber To: Matt Behrens Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world shortcut (was Re: Snapshots) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:24:36 EDT." Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:06:43 -0700 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matt Behrens writes: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > : In message , > : Matt Behrens writes: > > : > On 19 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > : > : 'make depend && make && make install' is much faster and works fine > : > : for small incremental updates. > > : > Hmm, how do we know when it's not working fine? After the system > : > breaks? :-) > > : That's why the &&'s are there. && only allows subsequent commands to > : execute if the previous command returned with an exit status of 0. > > I guess my question was less of that and more of "can we be assured > we will have a working system even if the entire process returns > no error codes"? There are no guarantees. cc & ld return non-zero return codes when an error is encountered. Various scripts may or may not depending on who wrote them. Make(1) can only rely on what it is given. It all boils down to: Does the port maintainer know what he is doing? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message